This is the “Double Mirage”. It is a place between illusion and reality, mystery, and uncertainty. 

For every illusion there is something real that defines it as an illusion.

Double Mirage is a poetic exploration of this idea of “what is real and is what is not.” I combine my skills learned as an English major with those of my previous profession, systems engineer, and analyst at Intel Corporation, both which require expertise in information theory and communications.

You can’t have a conversation about information without a conversation about misinformation. But there is also another type, misunderstood information, where we create explanations that are wrong not because we are trying to fool someone but because we don’t see the whole picture, we act only on the part we can see.

What is critical to any illusion is the element of realness it projects, by depicting familiar objects which we identify as real. This is why we can easily be fooled that misinformation is real, as long as some of that misinformation is actually real. So maybe everything is not an illusion but confusion instead.

Some people understand the power of information. You will find them with politicians, advertisers and con artists quenching their thirst down at the Double Mirage.