In her own words...
Back in the Paris etching studio and playing with the possibilities of sugarlift, I used it for total delineation. It seemed so perfectly matched to the seductive subject, even to my way of thinking about line, always sinuous, always bent on seduction.
–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. 101.