Surreal mirror

Scene360 is tattoo magazine interviewing tattoo legends like Charlie Cartwright and Kari Barba and newschool artists Jio and Paradox.

Model: my daughter Taken at the Linda Vista Hospital in East L.A.

In 1935, M. C. Escher created the above mesoprint entitled Hand with a Reflecting Sphere. The print is a self-portrait of the artist holding a ball-shaped mirror at arms length. A remarkable quality about the self-portrait in the spherical mirror is that no matter where the mirror might have been placed in relation to the artist, the eyes of the artist will always be in the dead center of the mirror.

Specchio magico, or “magic mirror.” “Specchio magico reflects who we really are or—if you prefer—who we would like to be...