Jacob Ciocci Am I Evil (single channel version) (2012)

The good witch (Harry Potter ) tries to understand his reflection but the mirror shatters as soon as he touches it. The evil witch (Wicked Witch of the West ) tries the same thing but the mirror again shatters. We are watching reflections of faces forever falling apart. The mirror always shatters just before a fixed identity can be sustained. A mirror is magic in much the same way many newer imagemaking tools are magic: for a brief moment you are put under a spell, you believe in it. But the longer and the closer you look, everything begins to fall apart. That is the real magic.