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newspaper 25, January-February 2001 A larger space by Oscar van den Boogaard Imagine this: a woman who doesn't walk, but floats, an ethereal being, if you blow at her or a car passes by, for a moment she billows out, but a few seconds later she retrieves her own shape, a woman who is as an icon, an image into which you can project all your desires, a metaphor for desire itself, I am thinking of Sylvia Kristel. 'Desire is something that is made to occupy a larger space than that which is afforded by the individual being,' Tennessee Williams writes in one of his stories, to watch or to listen to her is to enter this larger space, she swallows you up into a larger whole, a weightless space in which past and future appear to be dissolved in the present, a dreamt reality, no stories but experiences. Imagine another woman, not a filmstar, just as ethereal, transparent, a woman who lives in her desire, Annemiek de Haan. Imagine these two women meeting, taking place beside each other on a bench, and exchanging memories of Los Angeles, a city that is a metaphor in itself for the larger space: the void, floating, life in fiction. In the work that Manon de Boer made about them, it is as if both women are moving forward together into the larger space, but they each remain within themselves. Annemiek: The Griffith Observatory. Sylvia: Stars, Planets. A: Comets. S: The Saint Andreas Vault. A: The Northridge Earthquake. S: I think I must have felt a lot of earthquakes, but small ones. Like every day you could feel some trembling and finally you got used to it. But one time it was in Oakdale I guess in an apartment building, one woke up by the sound of what I thought was an approaching train. And later all alarms went off from the cars and the sound was deafening. A: One time I was having lunch in the cafetaria of Cal Arts and there for the first time I felt a big shock. And it was just a single sharp shock and the windows of this modern building they boom boom boom just completely bent. And it was just this one thing and people werenžt even paying attention. This was just before the big Northridge Earthquake. S: Burbank Studio's. A: Sun Valley. A: Burbank Airport. S: Las Vegas, I'm thinking of my first wedding. I think we took off from Burbank Airport and then went to Las Vegas and then got married. You cannot possibly call this a dialogue, they are two monologues that become intertwined. For me it has everything to do with life in the big city, the questions its inhabitants ask themselves, who they are to themselves and to the other, it is about emptiness and fullness, living in possibilities, fluidity but no evaporation, temporariness but no need for solidity, trust but no belief, and much, much I wanna love more. Translation: Kate Mayne