The narrow inside space, multiplied and complicated by mirrors, evoke a sensation of sublime terror, an alteration referring to a puzzling infinity itself created to destabilize conventional spatial habits. Mirrors become an instrument to create illusion and, at the same time, to unmask it. Since the public can easily see themselves reflected in a false infinite – thus discovering the illusion – the problem becomes the latency of perception.

Praised by writers including Carlos Fuentes, Alma Guillermoprieto, and Elena Poniatowska, Carmen Boullosa is the author of over a dozen novels. Christy Rodgers holds of a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University and has published widely.