Mírate en este espejo, from Homage to Quevedo [Look at Yourself in this Mirror]

The parade of animal-like characters in this work recalls the disfigured bodies of the dead described by the Spanish writer Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645) in his parody of the Last Judgement, Los sueños [The Visions] (1627). Among these deformed and tragicomic figures is a legless man who holds a red-framed mirror up to the viewer. As in a funhouse mirror, the viewer initially may be amused by the freakishness of the other figures before being confronted with his or her own distorted reflection in the shiny surface of the print. With the mirror and the command given by the work’s title, the artist encourages viewers to see themselves as part of his biting satire of humanity.