This installation uses video and special effects along with architectural mirroring to evoke the secret gardens, hidden meanings, and picaresque narratives of the “converso” tradition in Spanish literature and culture, which allowed banished cultures to survive by hiding in plain sight. At first the story seems to turn on mistaken identities, but as time ruptures & slips and characters morph into cultural archetypes, it becomes an investigation of the origins of our desire for the irrational to erupt into modern narrative space. See Judith Barry, Study for the Mirror and Garden, Museum José Guerrero, Diputación de Granada, 2003.