Thank you, most kindly, JP. <3
No matter how far away from her death I get, she still lives and is present in my thoughts and art, and of course the complex of abandonment I inherited from her. She was truly gorgeous, charming, memorizing and mysterious — what a force of a person, no wonder she was not long for this world.

I’ll always be the mother in the relationship and she the daughter, which is why I always called her by her name.

It’s a joy to think on her now, almost two decades post mortem.