Fastforward to the Little Tent of Death
Aug. 2nd, 2011 06:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinNo longer content to make unending reference to corners of Polar history with which most of the Western Hemisphere was unfamiliar, Tealin then sought to combine it with reference to a long-forgotten American television series from the mid-1990s.
Her note accompanying this work reads as follows:
This piece signalled the irrevocable final slide into a world of such arcane combinations of references that eventually the only person who understood them was Tealin herself; while fans of the surreal were entertained by their baffling web of suggested allusion, the sad truth is she had lost all connection with reality, and ability to communicate with anyone outside her head.
Her note accompanying this work reads as follows:
I drew this last Christmas, but as it involved more than a little bit of assembly and colouring I put it off till now (of course, when I am obscenely busy). I just finished Birdie's biography (an excellent pick-me-up!) and now believe this is more plausible than I could have imagined. Which is to say, 'probably still not very plausible at all ... probably.'
This piece signalled the irrevocable final slide into a world of such arcane combinations of references that eventually the only person who understood them was Tealin herself; while fans of the surreal were entertained by their baffling web of suggested allusion, the sad truth is she had lost all connection with reality, and ability to communicate with anyone outside her head.
