Mirrors, magnifying glasses and other objects are positioned in the model, producing duplications, reflections, spatial exaggerations and estranging a unitary reading of scale and sense of the whole.
It's also probably an intelligent political move to announce himself as separate from his crazy fans, to distance himself from any political stereotype that risks estranging a more thoughtful electorate.
But there are better ways to go about rebuilding those bridges than estranging the one man about whom everyone in the sport (and even those outside it) holds an opinion.
He tolerated the religion of his foreign wife, and met the religious intolerance of his people with rigor, thus estranging some of his followers and sowing dissension among them.
