The Mirror Stage consists of a series of life-size reproductions of fashion doll clothing I owned as a child, placed in mirror-image to the originals. The large garments are hung next to arrangements of pink hand mirrors.

"Dressing up" the fashion doll projects an already finished image of the subject onto an effigy of the self—a miniaturized version of the completed person—whose wardrobe changes form a testing ground for imagined futures.  Now dressing up as “ourselves,” fashion still enables becoming, as the childhood imaginary mingles with the image in the mirror. Dressing is seen not as leading to the ultimate realization of the “dream”--as practice for time when all wishes will be realized--but as its end, the fulfillment of a wish.