Why don't we just accept that art history is one long, looping
conversation in a haunted house, with so many vivid voices belonging to currently dead people?
In a
conversation for this series, Machado explained how Shirley Jackson's The
Haunting of Hill
House became a kind of call to arms, especially a scene where a little girl refuses an ordinary water glass — insisting instead on drinking from an adorned «cup of stars.»