# mirror gorilla xavier hubert-brierre > we have no need of other worlds. we need mirrors. we don't know what to do with other worlds. a single world our own suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is > ~ stanisław lem solaris consider "mirror gorilla xavier hubert-brierre" price for this concept (image+text) considered as virtual art experience - to be split with a wildlife protection group: insert here example artist statement robert what: "(..) in which idiot and photographer xavier hubert-brierre ir human cohorts and ir minds of silvered metal invade the endangered jungles of gabon to set up an ugly hyperreal mirror (of themselves) - which despite allegedly being some kind of cognitive test for the poor animals which encounter it is in fact a simple litmus test for extreme hubris and only ever reflects an innate human stupidity despite what space apes automatically assume they do not get to witness the (startled afraid and confused) internal reactions of the animals but rather only ever get to blindly watch ir own dim reactions to such cruel 'reaction videos' at some point in the video a bird crashes against the mirror no doubt injuring itself. the mirror seems an outward projection of certain ideas ideals assumptions regarding who sees what and from what alleged perspective everything's endlessly hilarious and viral in the dead deserted media-desert west; and violently exhibitionist colonialists need ever more distant vulnerable lands and locations to spread ir reflectively innocent hilarity to - life as just another thing to laugh stupidly at self and other reflected limitation superficial surfaces and split aspects of self at the infantile mirror stage; imagine the silverback in the picture tore the mirror out of the ground and smashed it over the ideologically fractured skulls of humans who stick them there (ie. themselves - the human stain) in vain feigned acts of vague ethological interest" > mirrored sunglasses (..) are the symbol of the policeman and similar outlaws > ~ preface to mirrorshades book by bruce sterling // republic of bob