"I think that's what led me to the career I had," she says, "the idea that I could polish this mirror myself and point it up at the night sky and see the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter".
This feeling pushed me to start a more personal series, a surface where I can mirror myself in every detail and push forward as much as I feel, without agreements: Summa Cum Laude.
And if we don't have enough precipitation for frozen art, through the spirit of the snowman I recall the power of the elements to mirror myself, to remind me that everything is alive and looking back at me, extending an opportunity for partnership.
I got up from my seat at one point and went to the lavatory next to the galley in the back of the plane and splashed cold water on my face, admonishing myself face to face with myself in the mirror, telling myself not to be silly.
I sat in that SHOCK camp and countless other prisons and jails, promising myself that I'd overcome all the bullshit and become a man that my family could be proud of, and that when I looked in the mirror at myself I'd want to start feverishly beating my dick in awe of myself, and never ever be ashamed.
Throughout the past five years and even still today, I've had to look in the metaphorical mirror at myself far more times than in the physical one.
I committed to a month: I would stand in front of the mirror, look myself in the eye and say, "I love flossing!
I suppose the Express Newspapers' £85m pension deficit could be accommodated in spite of Trinity Mirror's own £301m deficit, but (as a Mirror pensioner myself) I wonder if that would be wise.
I'm standing in front of a full-length mirror, watching myself tentatively, so tentatively, touch my way all around the soft, new, white bandages, and the tears are pouring down my face because I've made a mistake and let the grief in after all.
It feels, each time, like I'm glancing in the rear-view mirror at myself, all the while thinking: "How could you possibly have taken so long to realise that?" It's one of those books I've grown up – if not quite old – with, as a reader and, later, as a writer, and one that has had a profound impact on me as both.
"We were looking for answers, and getting ourselves in positions to create things, but the amount of misplaced passes and poor performances on the day, the first person I look in the mirror is myself, whether I made the right changes with the formation".
