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Mirrors can be portals to other realms. In Irish folk tradition, reflective surfaces are covered at a wake for fear that the soul of the deceased might otherwise slip through. In ‘Snow White,’ it is before her own reflection in a glass chalice that the queen transforms into a witch. Such surfaces have long appeared in mythology and throughout art history as points of revelation and metamorphosis. In 'Never Odd or Even,' Ted Pim’s paintings map out the anatomy of transformation using mirror image as a central motif. At the heart of the exhibition is the idea that transformation is not …