This series of text and print based works was done within the framework of CEM, a project sourced in the Narcissus myth as rewritten (twice) by Paul Valery. The myth serves as the content base for a series of works steeped in the problem of the platonic condemnation of illusion, similitude, mimesis. What occurs when the ontological is placed as the inferior compliment to a linguistic or artificial mediation of the physical reflection?