March 6, 2012 · 10:48 am

“keep your eye on your inner world”

Dorothea Tanning’s death at the end of January filled me with anger & depression. The more I look at why, the less obvious it seems. I didn’t feel like that when Ballard died. Keep your eye on the object centre left in Interior with Sudden Joy. “The door is not a door on the wild red garden, just on a little something personal, like the door of a house looking in.” –Tanning, Between Lives, 2001.

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  2. Zak S
    March 6, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    I always thought she was Audsley King.

    Or that at least Audsley King’s house looked like the one from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

  3. uzwi
    March 7, 2012 at 11:23 am

    Smaller, the house, I think. But there’s an uncanny resemblance between AK and the woman in “Beyond the Esplanade” –

    http://tinyurl.com/7x7cumk

  4. Martin Maw
    March 7, 2012 at 11:50 am

    And no one would have been that surprised if a presence like the figure in “Birthday” had been waiting upstairs at Pam’s house for the narrator of “CotH,” the scent of blackcurrant flowers fading around her.