In her own words...
A visual entity, the witness, that fascinates and repels -- a matter of who is the witness and who is the subject seen. These play out their geometry in an enclosed space, well lit and defined by lace. Six colors, five actors.
–from Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium! A Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist’s Illustrated Books and Prints, 1942-1991, New York: The New York Public Library, 1992, p. 96.