Oh wow I am so glad for you - sounds like a very fortunate connection indeed (esp as you say it was her last day). I hope you keep in touch, get to see one of her shows, and so on. These people are rare.

I think you grow, and as an artist, get to make pretty things out of non-pretty people, maybe, and I guess that's something to always be glad of (re. Buckle).

The creative diet, ie what other media someone consumes- books, TV, painting, music, film, fashion - is just as important as our calorific diets.
If we consume trash, out comes trash. We are what we eat in more ways than we know.

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