The viewer has ten seconds, the time it takes to get close enough to the mirror to read the poems one by one, before they disappear. Once the poems have all vanished the viewer is faced with their own reflection for five seconds before the texts appear again. While this game of mirrors recalls the myth of Narcissus, it also conceals another purpose : that of placing the viewer in a state of floating between their own image and the images of Sampiero’s poems, in this way doubling the effect of back-and-forth, from the specific to the general, then from the general to the specific.

Furthermore, the very shape of the poems, (spaced out words with neither capital letters nor punctuation) as well as the materials used in the piece, add to this feeling of floating: it is as though the words were suspended within the space of the mirror, as though from this finite area of the square they were reaching towards infinity.