Differently from Adrian Paci's earlier projects, Per Speculum is not inspired by a real incident but seems suspended in an undetermined, archetypical dimension of time and space. The main characters of Per Speculum are children engaged in daring the sun with the segments of a mirror they had previously broken into pieces while it returned their image. The infants reflect the light from the branches of a tree they have climbed, thus infusing it with pulsing vitality. The breaking into pieces of the mirror is a dramatic, self-destructive act. The title of the work itself quotes an often commented-on passage from Saint Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate tunc autem facie ad faciem 13:12 ("We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face").
—Thessaloniki Documentary Festival