Our bodies are among the most significant tools available to us for perceiving and recognizing another person. The intercorporeal connection formed in the brain, partly through the activity of mirror neurons, may even dissolve the feeling that the person before us is a stranger, someone unfamiliar, and awaken an initial sense of empathy.Read more
We grew up in the same home, sharing the same childhood memories, yet today our lives are far apart along almost every conceivable axis. She is ultra-Orthodox (a follower of Chabad), while I am traditional. In this work, the complex encounter between us takes place in front of a mirror. The mirror is, ostensibly, the antithesis of the Other, a place where we are accustomed to searching only for ourselves. But when we stand before it together, the mirror begins to crack. It forces us to look not only at our own reflection, but at the reflection of the Other within ourselves.Read more