An homage to Callas, Warhol's status as a devotee of the opera diva, and the avant - garde tradition of musique concrète, this abstraction of music turns the operatic melody into pure, hard sound, and emotion into
something obdurate and concrete, before the song reemerges.
Her experiences have taught her that there is always
something veiled, dusky, hidden, opaque,
obdurate, and impervious to human knowledge.