The Uninvited

a state of enlightenment. Was thissymbolism what Ashok was referring to,when he said, ‘nice touch’? If so, hewould be wrong. I constructed a lotusflower for Lars Axel because apart fromozuru, I work through my repertoire oftwelve basic models on a rota system, andit was the turn of Model 8.Outside, altocumulus and cirrocumulusclouds drape the sky. At ten o’clock, I takethe fourteen-and-a-half-minute walk frommy hotel to the hospital. It’s an eightstoreymodern structure with polishedfloors. There’s a huge courtyard with abronze sculpture of a lion, surrounded byglass-sided lifts. It doesn’t have thesickly, claustrophobic smell of the Britishhospitals I visited during the years of my