Crop out the fractured figure on the right, and this startling image becomes even stronger -- a strikingly poignant
tableaux of boredom and detachment. The woman in the foreground stares at an empty chair, the empty chair is aimed at a partially burned out TV screen, and the woman tilting back in her chair seems to connect more to the ticking clock over head than the television. The viewer's eye goes round and round the circle, and never comes to rest. It gives us much to think about.
