epithet, n.
During the five years I lived in Chicago, I dated my fair share of aspiring artists. There was the fashion designer, the performance artist, the painter, the actor, the sculptor… I even dated an artist’s assistant. And as time passed, and a new one would enter my life, their medium was exactly how I would refer to them to my friends. This made it easier on them, especially since I never seemed to repeat an art form.
“So the performance artist and I went to this comedy show last night.”
“Oh, remember how the artist’s assistant drove a Vespa during the summers?”
“The painter really has a thing for doing Lindsay Lohan portraits…”
And even though I truly appreciate the time I spent with each most of them, this is still how I refer to them in my head when I think about them.
