Julio Torres

And I didn't take for granted the fact that I would ever be able to make another one.

So I was like, why would I make a little preview of what I could do?

Why not just go all in?

Oh, no.

No, no, it's fine.

It's fine.

I'm vegan.

Oh, I had actually never thought of that.

No, I don't think I ever really encountered this kind of, as you put it, creature in El Salvador.

No.

Or at the very least, I was never in the receiving end of this kind of creature in El Salvador.

And a New York boy, I was.

I mean, she's an amalgamation of so many people that I met.

I think that it's almost like the artist's rite of passage in New York City, at least to wind up being...

the assistant to so many people who are just so flustered by the fact that they haven't figured out so much.

And I was a short-term assistant for so many people.

Okay, so another part of me also identifying as a problemista is that I am very attracted to difficult people.

I don't see difficult people as nightmares to escape.

I'm really drawn to them like a moth to a flame.

And then there are more than a few that I came to really, really, really empathize with and appreciate.