the canvas
Artefact
Quicksotte’s former artistic surface, slashed when muse and artist ceased to agree.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
Connections
Where they turn up
- St Werburghs created at (1 passage)
From the books (1 passage)
…nowhere a pair of bushy eyebrows grew, and overhung those flashing eyes, and made them dull and dead. The canvas slashed, the statue broken, the abortion of Venus. And then that terrible morning when, gravid and exhausted, she had staggered away from the bedsit and Quicksotte’s cloying bafflement, and trudged through the pluvial slums and down past the allotments mouldering on the hillside, to the artist’s studio in St Werburghs,…