Julio Torres

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.

And I think that Tilda's character is rooted in that.

And also...

To be completely fair about it, whenever I was an assistant, it was in the receiving end of the wrath of these art world egos.

I also acknowledge that I was a very incompetent assistant.

I have zero attention to detail and I can barely keep my own life on track.

So the fact that I was ever...

tasked with doing that for someone else is just a recipe for disaster.

I don't know the why yet.

I haven't gotten that far in therapy.

I'm sorry if I seem a little bit distracted.

I just got my lab results back, and just as every doctor suspected...