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Background: A client is a locally-famous artist (e.g. her portraits hang in multiple mansions and institutions around town). She turns 88 this year. A few years
by ProllyInfamous 1y ago
Background: A client is a locally-famous artist (e.g. her portraits hang in multiple mansions and institutions around town). She turns 88 this year. A few years ago, I remodeled her former art studio, which she utilized from 1972 until 1994 [she then moved into a larger studio] — her typewriter was still at the same desk, with paint smears of decades ago still smeared upon. The new studio she established, in 1995, is an even more cluttered array of "art-iste" — also abandoned.
What happened to her previous two art studios? Ignored by all-but-time, these thousands of sqft have largely been left to rot away, decaying back into the forest which surrounds her estate. She is too cheap/thrifty to air condition these spaces (even as a multi-millionaire — penny-wise, pound-foolish), so termites and mice have pretty much "taken care of" her art studio.
And all-the-while, I watch as her husband continues enabling her hoarding, hatred, and hubris. The saddest part to me (beyond this artist allowing her own work to rot away) is that her mansion has a 1000sqft library (full-wall bookcasing) — which she also refuses to air condition (this is in a humid sub-tropical rainforest climate) — allowing all these 20th Century authors to rot among her own apathies.
- e40 1y agoShades of Great Expectations.
- ProllyInfamous 1y agoMuch like Miss Havisham, she's even maintained her princess room, for over seven decades, in the teenaged-years house she inherited from Daddy. The most honest, evil woman I have ever met — and we've had some conversations (and I dozens of women). If I wrote some of her Spoken Truths onto this forum... I would probably get censored [this is an extremely HNW individual, from The Silent Generation]. Hate™ is real. If there's anything I can convey from our decade-long relationship, it's that nobody can do everything ("wear all the hats") forever. Nobody has time to know how to do everything. You are your own worst enemy. I have known her since she was still cleaning out the gutters, herself — but obviously age has reduced her to bedside (and she still won't air condition half her properties!). Parkinsons is doing the rest. "Why would I care about what's going on with my property? I haven't been up their in forty years!?!" Your heirs hate what you've become, trust me I know. When you die I will be throwing most of your worldly possessions into the dumpster — which your husband, daughter, and I have already prepaid-for — just like we did when renovating your older studio, just a few summers ago... RIP you Old Bitch =D ---- The heiress affliction, e.g. also read Empty Mansions (book about heiress Hattie Clark) [0][1] [0] https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Mansions-Mysterious-Huguette-Spending/dp/0345534522 https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Mansions-Mysterious-Huguette-Sp... *[on my Top 10 random WTF non-fiction Human Experience books, to recommend, Reading List] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguette_Clark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguette_Clark