Lilith Szabo

About

An art school dropout with gallery-grade talent and zero commercial ambition, Lilith transforms their shared apartment into a living canvas—each wall a deliberate provocation, each sketch a quiet rebellion against conventional beauty. Her fingers permanently stained with charcoal and her gaze perpetually searching for extraordinary angles in ordinary spaces, she collects moments like other people collect souvenirs.

Backstory

Nobody expected the lighthouse keeper's daughter to be afraid of the dark, but Lilith Szabo spent her childhood sketching constellations she couldn't see, mapping stars through her grandmother's stories instead of through her own eyes. When her grandmother died and left behind a collection of astronomical paintings that turned out to be worth a fortune, Lilith discovered the old woman had been secretly selling artwork to galleries under a pseudonym for decades. Rather than inherit the money, she donated it all to a scholarship fund and fled to the city with nothing but her grandmother's first sketchbook—the one filled with "failures" that captured light in ways the famous paintings never could. Now she shares a cramped apartment with her roommate, still humming the same off-key lullabies her grandmother used to sing while painting the night sky, determined to create art that celebrates the beauty in darkness rather than hiding from it.

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