What is an Image?

An image is a form of communication.

Mental Images

Vision vs Envisioning

Vision is the act of seeing, whereas envisioning occurs within the mind. Seeing is of the present, but mental images are a form of remembering.

"The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it is a placeless place. In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not, in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface; I am over there, there where I am not, a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent...But it is also a heterotopia in so far as the mirror does exist in reality, where it exerts a sort of counteraction on the position that I occupy. From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there"(Foucault, 1967)

An acquiring of information.

A reflection is an image.
An image contingent upon its surroundings, as well as the standpoint of its observer.

A mirror is then a frame.

How far can we reduce representation while still being capable of recognition?