Reflection
Mirrors tell it like it is. We look in them and we see mirror images of ourselves. It was often said that the camera never lies but surely that is more true of mirrors. They reflect back the truth. It is the same with still water. You look upon the surface and see a mirror image of the sky above. If birds or aeroplanes fly above the water you will see them too. Back in 1922, in Washington D.C., a very large reflecting pool was completed between The Washington Monument and The Lincoln Memorial. I suppose its fundamental purpose was to reflect those two stone edifices - endowing them with even greater visual significance and drama. It was there by that reflecting pool that The People's March on Washington terminated on August 28th, 1963 to listen to Martin Luther-King delivering his iconic "I have a dream" speech. A speech by a reflecting pool that reflected the state of civil rights in America at that time. Later that decade, anti-Vietnam war protesters in their thousands...