The Mirror of Quiet

I spent an hour this morning trying to fix a leaky faucet in the kitchen. I kept looking at my own face in the polished chrome of the handle, distorted and upside down. It felt strange to see myself like that—stretched and unfamiliar, yet undeniably me. It made me think about how often we look at the world and only see the version of things we expect to see. We walk past the same streets and the same faces, assuming we know the shape of them. But what if we stopped to look at the reflection instead? What if the truth isn’t in the solid object itself, but in the way it dances on a surface, shifting with the light and the wind? There is a certain kind of peace in realizing that everything has a double, a quieter twin that waits for us to pay attention. It reminds me that there is always more than one way to see a place, or a person, or even a day.

Fatemeh Pishkhan has captured this beautiful sense of duality in her work titled Reflection. She shows us how a simple surface can turn a familiar landmark into something entirely new and dreamlike. Does this image make you want to look at your own surroundings a little differently today?