The Story of the Image That Waited but No One Chose It (first gesture)

THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SELF 2025, work in process In contemporary consciousness, the mirror ceases to function as reflection — it simulates truth, offering the desired in place of the real. Here, the body is no longer a central presence but appears half-dissolved, fading at the edge between the visible and the simulated. The surrounding space destabilizes the subject, leaving only outlines where identity used to be. The flame in this series is not enlightenment, but the edge between self and copy. Self- knowledge becomes impossible without refusing the naive belief in an “authentic I”. The mirror is not a site of contact, but of projection — reality dissolves into wishful thinking, and the image ceases to be a response, becoming a substitution.