The Videotape

The Videotape · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.

On the cover of The Child in the Videos, the motif is identified as “The Videotape.” On a tape from 1992, a little girl crosses the hallway. No one in the family knows who she is.

The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.