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A reflective statement is a written record of your artistic process for any individual artwork you've created. A good reflective statement describes step-by-step what you did, and more importantly, why you did it. It can touch on some of the challenges you faced and how you overcame them.

Mirror Meanings The mirror can be used as an instrument of truth or of distortion. It can be a metaphor for the apprehension of what is there: Ham- let enjoins the actors to “hold the mirror up to Nature” (1II:II: 24).

Artists have also used mirrors to look outward, symbolising sight and truth. Early modern personifications of truth often incorporated mirrors and scales, like the sombre, seventeenth-century painting of Truth Presenting a Mirror to the Vanities of the World.

In geometry, the mirror image of an object or two-dimensional figure is the virtual image formed by reflection in a plane mirror; it is of the same size as the original object, yet different, unless the object or figure has reflection symmetry (also known as a P-symmetry).

Reflection can include but is not limited to: Articulating reactions to and about an experience. Rethinking initial ideas or opinions in light of new information. Identifying how revisions improved one's work. Observing and responding to the work of others.

In ancient East, mirrors were regarded as sacred objects having magical powers. They also symbolize water, in that they reflect the world and self, or the enlightened psyche. At the same time, however, they sometimes symbolize arrogance and vanity. Mirrors trigger self-awareness.

Art is a mirror. Creativity is a reflection of so many things, not least of which is the current state we find ourselves in. This includes political environments, our personal baggage, projections, external contemplations.

Sometimes mirrors can be interpreted as symbols of vanity in paintings, especially when ladies gaze into them. However, notice how Vermeer's subject averts her eyes and focuses instead on the empty scales. The mirror, however, could instead reference self- awareness and reflection upon one's own deeds.