Tate Gallery's magazine Tate Etc komt in het nieuwste nummer met een artikel over mijn favoriete schilderij uit de pre-Rafaëlitische periode, dat ik lang geleden met eigen ogen in Tate Britain zag en sindsdien nooit meer vergeten ben. In de rubriek Micro Tate vertellen twee schrijvers hun verhaal bij dit dramatische schilderij naar de beroemde sterfscène uit Shakespeare's Hamlet, oftewel de Ophelia van sir John Everett Millais:

"Ophelia has become an icon for femininity in despair. Reduced to the part of a pawn in a network of intrigues, abandoned by her brother, abused by her lover and manipulated by her father, her only way out is an excessive, histrionic display of vulnerability. Lying forever on her back in a stream, flowers floating beside her, she is perfected. No longer resisting the power play around her, she will fulfil the destiny others have scripted for her."

> Micro Tate of 'two different responses to an image of Millais� dying Ophelia' in Tate Etc issue 3, over de klassieker Ophelia (1851-1852) van John Everett Millais.