flame and reflection

flame and reflection

of flame -- a pillar burning

without and within

Reflection on reflections. A reflection is a flip over a line. This virtual line is called the Mirror Line. It divides the "real" object from its reflected image. Every point in the object and its reflection is the same distance from the Mirror Line line and the reflection has the same size as the original object. In this reflection, we see two candles, one burning on the window sill and the other burning inside the frame of a photograph, lighting up the image of a pear in the center of a coil of rope. The photograph, of course, is an image of an object. And the photograph of the photograph is an image of an image.