Nostalgic Mirror

  ORIGINAL PICTURE Author: @Dr_Mice_ / Twitter - Pixiv I said to a friend that this reminds me of them, but I wonder if I only said it because they remind me of myself. Mirrors are a wonderous thing in art, the first time I was called to them was in Velazquez “Las Meninas”, not as much for how it turn the viewer into a king, the detail will almost always pass me by without much care, but rather how it makes me feel observed, as if I’m being stopped by the art and being forced to acknowledge how alive it is; but while Velazquez canvas it’s bursting with the movement of their characters, Dr_Mice_ would rather freeze and instant that will be lost in the routine of daily life. In plain text, the blond character, main point of the piece is watching us through the screen, reaching with silent worry and (just like Velazquez work) the contrast of knowing those eyes to merely be a suggestion of humanity, them staring at us makes us part of the piece. We are now trapped on the same frozen fr...