A curation by Natalie Slater, Art Agent at Snap Collective - ‘Near Mirror’ is a curatorial collection that brings together artists who work through doubling—images that appear symmetrical until you look long enough to notice the drift. Each piece hinges on a central divide: two halves that echo one another, align for a moment, then slip out of step. The repetition isn’t decorative; it’s structural, almost procedural. Across ink, acrylic, and digital rendering, the approaches vary, but the impulse is the same: build a form, split it, let chance or precision dictate the differences. Some works feel engineered, cleanly mirrored like a diagram. Others lean into material unpredictability—ink spreads unevenly, paint hits heavier on one side, digital marks shift by increments you only catch on the second or third reading. What keeps the works alive is that tension between likeness and discrepancy. You think you’re looking at a perfect match, and then a shape folds differently, a contour curves off-course, a highlight breaks the illusion. The more you compare, the less fixed the symmetry becomes. Taken together, the collection maps that space between order and variation. ‘Near Mirror’ doesn’t claim perfect reflection—only the fascination of almost.