Broken Mirror centers on a shattered reflective surface, its fragments scattering light in unpredictable directions. Rather than offering a coherent image, the mirror becomes a site of distortion, memory, and emotional ambiguity. The viewer is invited to confront the instability of self‑perception and the ways in which identity can fracture under pressure.
The broken glass directed the composition - balanced between chaos and order. A curious opportunity to embrace “chance” in a work. The broken shards create sharp diagonals that disrupt any sense of calm geometry. This tension between structure and rupture gives the painting its psychological charge. The space becomes a metaphor for the mind—ordered on the surface, but full of hidden fractures.
This work resonates with Glass Dragon and Chicken through its exploration of fragility and symbolic inversion. Where the dragon’s glass body suggests imagined vulnerability beneath mythic power, the mirror reveals the fragility beneath the surface of self‑image. Both works use reflective materials to probe the emotional undercurrents of interior life.