The environment doesn’t just surround us, it shapes us. Often without noticing, we begin to think, feel, and react like it. We become its reflection. At some point, brief and uncomfortable, there’s a realization:

you are not that reflection. There is something more real underneath. Something that is yours. The porcelain dragon, vivid and alive, rests on a delicate teapot adorned with another decorative dragon. Both the reflection and what lies beneath are fragile. One breaks when the environment changes. The other breaks when you stop looking at it.