my tears ricochet

“You know I didn't want to have to haunt you, but what a ghostly scene”

One of the most deliberate haunt-as-threat images in the catalogue. The speaker becomes spectral after betrayal — reluctantly, almost apologetically. What a ghostly scene frames the aftermath of the relationship's death as gothic tableau, observed from outside as spectacle.

Business loss: the breakdown of a professional relationship figured through the language of betrayal and dispossession. The speaker became a ghost at her own celebration — the industry machine taking what she built and locking her out of it. One of Taylor's most direct accounts of corporate theft of artistic ownership.