![]() ![]() Fair Play, Tove Jansson’s 1982 portrait of a partnership, is an exception.įair Play is based on Jansson’s relationship with the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, with whom she shared a life, and a home, for some forty years. Well, that’s not a shocker-happy families, as we are told, are all alike. ![]() Certainly not the relationships of artists. There are not many really good books that portray functional relationships. There are empty spaces that must be respected-those often long periods when a person can’t see the pictures or find the words and needs to be left alone. They never asked, “Were you able to work today?” Maybe they had, twenty or thirty years earlier, but they’d gradually learned not to. She could pause on the way to listen to the rain on the metal roof, look out across the city as it lit its lights, or just linger for the pleasure of it. Mari liked wandering across the attic it drew a necessary, neutral interval between their domains. They lived at opposite ends of a large apartment building near the harbor, and between their studios lay the attic, an impersonal no-man’s land of tall corridors with locked plank doors on either side. ![]()
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