The latter part of this sentence also became Kara's epitaph.
Perhaps the elders of the Ilyena family were moved by her persistence, or maybe it was a mix of slight pity and unspoken regret.
After Kara's death.
Her epitaph identified her as "Malerin Coral."
Malerin is the feminine term for artist in German, meaning female painter or female artist.
Apart from the painting "hidden at the world's end," the only work Kara left behind was the fragment of her self-portrait after it was burned.
Anna had seen the remnants of that self-portrait preserved by the family.
Most of the canvas had been burned, leaving only a few strands of flowing golden-red hair on a baby palm-sized piece.
Judging by the fragments, both the brushwork and the texture of the pointillism were unmistakably those of a master.
But even if they were the work of a master, so what?
In the field of painting, every artist's artistic life is fragile.
They are like exquisite and fragile ice sculptures.
