‘Reflecting New York’ Holds a Mirror Up to NYC

Reflecting New York is a series of perfectly matched reflections, a pairing of both what’s directly in front of the artist and what’s behind him. Falke perfects the graphics of buildings, trees, and bridges with just a slight manual adjustment to what the mirror captures. “I realized soon that the mirror was an actor in the image, not just the reflection in it,” says Falke. “Then came my hand, which I tried to avoid showing at first, but it became an important part of the series. It became the story: A handheld mirror, my mirror, creates unusual visuals in familiar places.”