Whatever happens, she'll deal with it in her art. After her father's death, she talked about finding an incredible trove of 100-year-old sepia-colored letters in her father's attic. This is in the film. She talks about what she might do with these letters. She said she might even bring new colors into her palate as a result of the discovery.
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