Consider the reflecting image of the mirror. The specular image of the mirror, including the double mirror, shines throughout Wolfson’s corpus. There is a certain optics here, which also encodes both a hermeneutics and a kind of postmodern gnosis that is, by definition, not restricted to any particular tradition or culture. That gnosis is rigorously dialectical and self-reflexive. It continuously bends back on itself, very much like the ancient ouroboros biting its own tail. This serpentine or tail-biting movement (which is also somehow vaguely autoerotic) doubles throughout the Wolfsonian
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