THE

AUTO-MOTION

MIRROR

A Creative Commentary

By

David A. Archer

09/11/2006

There it sits.

If you look, you will find it.

Most times in the very same place in every household, regardless of the repetition of them which may appear from room to room.

Sometimes you walk in and find immediate attention from your hosts, and then other times you might as well not have been there at all. All depending of course, on the present functioning status of their Auto-motion mirror.

Some people like to be different and call theirs an “Auto-motion Reflector,” just to make it sound more exciting to the neighbors. But rest assured, they all serve the same purpose. This purpose seeming to be the removal of any capacity, or otherwise considered space and function between their ears.

It is quite the modern appliance. So much revered that many times it no longer serves the purpose of “mirror,” it surpasses such in a cyclical fashion. It becomes the tail “leading” the dog so to speak. Then rendering the formerly “reflected” as a sort of mirror themselves, acting out that which they have experienced vicariously, in their everyday lives.

I find it curious that people have even died because of it, literally in a direct manner. Some finding themselves quite dead suddenly while in a hurry to get home and be reflected in their own mind through the motions and suggestions it emits, even though most of those reflections have been planned and produced for some months before the reflection is subject to those finding interest. Then strangely enough making themselves the reflection, of the reflection of themselves while thinking they are on the cutting edge of society’s motion.

In a social sense, it is similar to the effect you can see when hinging the mirror on the medicine cabinet to a forty five degree angle, to see the infinite repetition of reflections between it, and the wall mirror with yourself sparsely within said series…less and less so with the repeated generations of bouncing reflection as they continue into an eternity of fictitious area.

That is very similar to the rendered effect of this Auto-motion mirror as we render ourselves fictitious through it. But such is the tendency of our existence as creatures… at least it would seem as such. “Alive” as reflections of depictions meant to be reflections. Gravitating toward something always a little better than we see our selves… even in a real, and quite physical mirror and even when the act of it continues to render our very stature as creatures, more and more as fictitious echoes of ourselves. Perceived within our mind as somehow better, while rendering the opposite effect in a real sense to our physical persons.

Eventually I suppose it could become so pronounced that factual fictitious reproductions of ones self could stream behind them, as real illusions in effect similar to that of the bouncing wall mirror, visual feedback. Produced somehow through technological advance we have yet to “reflect” into existence.

And you thought traffic was bad, now?

We sit as we do, watching representations of ourselves living, watching… then watching the living through a fabricated reproduction. Automated and effortlessly fueled with the interest a person can observe in a monkey given a mirror.

Perhaps that is another reason we count ourselves superior to the average chimp? Our version is automated, we invented it and it makes us change how we look to ourselves sometimes with every minute.

I have yet to meet a zoo inhabitant that can do that for themselves.

Somehow within the reflection we reflect, we no longer just see the wrinkled monkey faced oddities that we are. Blobbed on the couch and smelling of various things we can’t quite identify…even and especially the fragrances we heap on ourselves to better reflect the reflection in motion we cling to with our minds. So as not to miss out on something, I suppose.

It is rather impressive, but nowhere near as impressive as having seen it begin to stream into reality. The breech itself being worth centuries of human progress I imagine. At least such is suggested in the continued promotion in effort to attain repeated and sustained breeches, even and most especially through the amplified use of further farce.

It achieves even the most difficult of tasks so simply, that there is no big surprise at its level of popularity.

A person would not be caught dead purposefully doing the same or similar thing as even their direct neighbor…but if it is something in the Auto-motion mirror, everyone on the block, within the city, county state and sometimes even the country and beyond, will find themselves happily repeating it in conversation and motion.

As long as they feel as though they are the “first” person in reference to the promoted popularity in reflection. It is truly a great invention in regard to that aspect, being able to produce so many simultaneous “first in line” positions. All without the other “first in line” positions ever really considering it beyond just knowing that “those other guys” are big fakers and just want to act like they are the “first in line.”

Have the same lawn mower as the guy across the street? No freaking way!

Wear the same dress suit as the lady down the hall? Dream on, buddy!

Have the same lunch box as the kid from “that” part of town? Isn’t going to happen!

Act, even if just in your mind, as though you are a superhero? Associate yourself with a fictitious representation of a bar room or restaurant social atmosphere?

Sure! With pleasure. Everyone is doing it….but I was the first one!

It is obvious that what cannot be done to an animal in the direction and reference of “humanitarianism,” can easily be done to humans and most times with their consent in voluntary participation. As long as they are likely to experience the sensation of being able to reflect the reflection of what they may be led to believe is themselves…without the wrinkled monkey like faces of course. Thus leading them to the salvation in belief that it is perceived as we all wear sweat proof make up, and simply sign on the dotted line for goods or services rendered…and of course, that they are the “first ones.”

It could be considered a living piece of art if a person were to lend themselves to such a description. But of course, in a somewhat mutated manner, given the various levels and degrees of reflection being reflected to reflect the initial reflections, where ever they originate. If any place at all which could be found in one “any place at all.”

I have to admit, that it can get a little confusing at times, as per trying to keep track of how many and what degree of reflection a person might be referencing when interacting with the general public. As well, I must admit that in allot of ways, that is part of the fun of it.

“Just which ‘first in line’ one” are you, again?”

It makes for really wonderful and inexpensive party favors, cerebrally. There is never a loss for words in conversation when referencing a social situation through a perspective attained from the Auto-motion mirror. There isn’t much risk of self exposure, either…which is another aspect I believe is rather attractive to most.

Further there’s never a loss for material to make ones self immediately look entirely foreign and weird. Simply reference a few reflections “down the hall” of reflective generations (so to speak), from where you may surmise your present company resides.

In some ways. Relaxing, and more homeopathic ways. A monkey, or even a dog and an actual mirror is a good reprieve from the pace of modern reflective existence through the Auto-motion mirror. It is so much more simple, and even simple to do speaking from experience, with none of the added baggage the modern version entails. No social pressures (beyond explaining the presence of a monkey). No character names to remember. No scripts or lines to properly deliver.

All you do is look at it and it looks back, making the same, though inverted silly faces…which, obviously enough, is a representation of yourself.

Of course, a person has to be somewhat comfortable with themselves before undertaking this sort of self indulgent entertainment. If you find it hard to look at yourself straight in the mirror, then making faces into one probably isn’t for you, however alluring it may sound at first. This, without even considering the more advanced mirror exercise involving spit bubbles which many consider college level stuff, so it then becomes one of those “at your own risk” things... which as a matter in the common sequence of events, the insurance guys love.