“Having the chance to work with someone that influential was amazing,” Parrott says. “It changed my work a lot, and helped me find my own voice.” Following the advice of an ex who encouraged her to work through her own influences to get “what’s yours,” she explains that how she “really needed to just do my version of Nan Goldin again and again until I got to the other side.”

- Skye Parrott, on working as Nan Goldin’s studio manager. 

This is one of the best and most honest ways of thinking about artistic influences I have ever heard.