Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas.
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Iris Apfel
American interior designer and fashion icon
I try to be happy whenever I can. I don’t fret about what’s past and we don’t know if there will be a future, so I make as much as I can out of what’s here now.
Lupita Nyong'o
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I thoroughly enjoyed high school in Nairobi: it was before everybody had a camera on their phone. I experimented with fashion and hairstyles that I am glad I don’t have any record of.
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Merging with nature or merging with people.
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First loved, then laid, then paid.
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