Tonight Show Over Claude

"I was compelled to choose "Tonight Show Over Claude" for deeply personal reasons. It wasn't just that I found the work serene and soothing, melancholic and mysterious all at the same time. It was more than that: it was the double-take I did when I realised, with a jolt, that I had, in actual life, lived in this very apartment! I had lived there on two different occasions, in fact, over the course of a decade. The room with its glow of yellow light had been my little study. The apparent stillness of Spence's photograph belies the at times ferocious power of life lived on the edge of the world. I've really never experienced such a consistent sense of gratitude, and even wonder, in relation to one's digs. But since it's never good to cling, even to the sublime, I thought it appropriate to write a tiny fable of love and loss amid the wild salt spray."