ABSTRACT

Sitting at a café with a mirrored wall, I notice the reflections of other people sitting around me engaged in solitary café activity (reading the newspaper, smoking, drinking coffee). I see that small shifts of action from one person (taking a pen out of a purse, for instance) trigger small unconscious bursts of action from neighboring tables (a sneeze at table one creates a rubbing of the eye at table two, which triggers a final sip of coffee at table three). We all influence each other constantly in subtle and unconscious ways.