This series, created in part with my first year midterm, explores the mirror as both object and metaphor, using it to reflect my self-constructed archetype, Satyabhama, romantic, envious, and naïve. Styled as a still life steeped in softness and restraint, the mirror becomes a site of self-confrontation rather than vanity. Its darkened surface obscures as much as it reveals, allowing fragments of the self to surface gradually, almost reluctantly. Romance appears through ornamentation and gesture, the bows, florals, and tactile details romanticize the act of looking, while envy lingers quietly beneath, suggested through absence, shadow, and reflection withheld. Naïveté is present in the delicacy of the composition and the almost childlike trust placed in the mirror as a truth-teller. Together, these images treat reflection not as clarity, but as distortion: a space where longing, comparison, and innocence coexist, and where self-perception remains beautifully unresolved.