Book description
APPEARANCES is a collection of twelve short stories revealing how
fragile and elusive reality is. It is full of playful and powerful
images that exist all around us. Funhouse mirrors of life. Or maybe the
other way round. Raw images of a reality normally photoshopped and made
to look gorgeous in the beauty parlors of everyday society, now shown
for what they are, revealing their true nature. The mirror theme helps
reflect on this reality. Stories are mirrors of life, of people and
circumstances. Images in those mirrors range from the exact to the
distorted. They can be revealing, misleading, or indicative of
something. They can be full of promises and lies, changing the world
according to their whims, or brutally honest, revealing the world as it
was never meant to be seen. Whatever the case, the images are real, and
so are the mirrors, phenomena of the everyday world, reflecting back to
us who we are, what we do and how we have set up the world around us.
They indicate to us the various aspects of humanity and the human
psyche, exposing our longings and fears. Victor and Xavier share these
stories with us, offering their perspective on life through the prism of
mirrors that are playful, powerful and present wherever one looks.
Nothing can be taken for granted. Only one thing s for certain.
Appearances are not what they seem. APPEARANCES is a collection of
twelve short stories revealing how fragile and elusive reality is. It is
full of playful and powerful images that exist all around us. Funhouse
mirrors of life. Or maybe the other way round. Raw images of a reality
normally photoshopped and made to look gorgeous in the beauty parlors of
everyday society, now shown for what they are, revealing their true
nature. The mirror theme helps reflect on this reality. Stories are
mirrors of life, of people and circumstances. Images in those mirrors
range from the exact to the distorted. They can be revealing,
misleading, or indicative of something. They can be full of promises and
lies, changing the world according to their whims, or brutally honest,
revealing the world as it was never meant to be seen. Whatever the case,
the images are real, and so are the mirrors, phenomena of the everyday
world, reflecting back to us who we are, what we do and how we have set
up the world around us. They indicate to us the various aspects of
humanity and the human psyche, exposing our longings and fears. Victor
and Xavier share these stories with us, offering their perspective on
life through the prism of mirrors that are playful, powerful and present
wherever one looks. Nothing can be taken for granted. Only one thing s
for certain. Appearances are not what they seem.
