And when I told my mom about his passing, she said "Oh. But did you know, that in the 80s, he was involved in a scandal", and she continued to tell me about the scandal, until I just fucking had it.
I said "With that rhetoric, all people will remember of me is what I did wrong. Things I said and did when I was a child, a teenager, or a new mom. Fuck her art - did you hear that she bla bla bla"... And my mom said; "Well, for people to remember your art, it has to be visible".
I am speechless.