In her own words...
A sort of collage, with mailbox. I dribbled cheap black enamel and had a good time. Putting the results to good use was more arduous. Here contrast is everything.
–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. 103.