It seems a ridiculous thing to compare any brief fling of mine to Bitter Moon, Polanski's mini masterpiece of passion curdled into obsession and disaster. Ridiculous because Mimi loved her writer and cripple more consistently than he loved her. If Allison loved me at all it was, in the beginning, out of gratitude for making her laugh in a grim city...
Highlights and equally poignant lowlights out of adventures with Capuera dancing Allison from Florida - inspiration for the spiteful but mortally necessary SHALLOW WATERS exhibition, produced for the Tacheles arts centre café, Berlin, 2000