According to a definition liked by 807 people on Urban Dictionary as of April 2025, “Latin lovers are sexy and exotic.” The definition is further explained as, “they are “not only sensual and manly but their [sic] gorgeous, with warm golden skin...” I read it. I reread it. I sat with the glow of it on the screen of my device—the stereotype, the desire, the sleekness of glass and metal, the fantasy precious and gleaming.
 
I made a mirror.
 
Using gold mylar, I crafted handheld looking glasses—tools for reflection, yes, but also for distortion. These mirrors weren’t about fidelity. They were radiant and unreliable. They puckered where the mylar bulged and pulled from the surface. They glowed, but never gave you a clear picture. As the project grew, so did the scale. Wall-sized mirrors captured the viewer in glints of themselves, always partial, always shifting. Looking Glass shows how myths, racialized aesthetics, and cultural desire bend and refract who we are allowed to be and how we are allowed to be seen.