Smoke & Mirror Self Portrait, 2022 is characteristic of the California-based artist, Zach Harris' psychedelic visions, evoking unfathomable depths of mysterious cosmologies that are alive within the artist's psyche. Here, a painter's palette acts as a stand-in for the artist himself, with an Escher-like logic running through the multiple layers of the composition. The smoking palette is the central subject of an oval painting or mirror, but also the repeated motif in the wallpaper-like background on which the oval is seemingly hanging. Both literal and illusionistic, the painting infers a magician's sleight of hand, a disappearing act reflected against a brightly colored sky. The deceptively realistic bubble level embedded into both the oval frame and the outer frame add to the Russian doll effect, further complexifying the relationship between image and reality in this painting.