About the Artwork
"The first to awaken will be the Fish"... This etching was inspired by Borges's "The Fauna of Mirrors" from the "Book of Imaginary Beings". The short story describes a legend from the times of the mighty Yellow Emperor, where the world of men and mirror beings were not cut off from each other. Both kingdoms, the Specular and the human, lived in harmony; you could come and go through mirrors. But when the conflict broke between the two worlds, the
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Original Edition
45.7 × 27.9 × 2.5 cm (18 × 11 × 1 in)
$800
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