Melancholia in its obvious form through the artist’s image.
Here the artist has isolated a feature of the subject which is her hair to suggest a feature taking precedence over others in order to make the subject fit in a bigot’s scheme of preconceptions .
The house is not empty neither is it lifeless but it shows every object/dog therein longing for the person who would normally occupy the space in the centre or the chair.
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