In Dangerous Acquaintances, Vivienne Shark LeWitt explores the difficulty of living.
“A naked man with his back turned empties a vase of water over a woman who lies in the corner of the picture, startled by the surprise of her lover’s rebuke, a rejection. A shock like cold water is the alarm engendered by such unpredictable behaviour in others. There are always two players in the game of chance, two principles locked in perpetual conflict. Lovers may enjoy a fragile respite, but their demons are not far away scheming for an upset. Even in love or because of it, there is fear. The gods of light and the gods of darkness play at their battle as in heaven, so on earth: good and evil, male and female, love and death. In the dealing of destiny the abstraction, Time, is the only quality which can describe the spheres, because the events which fill it merely repeat. Whatever the tip of the scales, at any one point, the total contents remain the same. Good coexists with Evil, and the balance of power awaits the next spin of the dice”.