I'm gonna take you through what a day in the life looks like as the Sugar Plum Fairy in George Balanchine's the Nutcracker right here in my hometown of New York City.
I especially liked the part about having your lunch left at the front door, deposited there as quietly as the tooth fairy deposits a quarter under a kid's pillow.
I think maybe when she was six or seven was the first time when she asked whether she could play, so she created a character as a fairy and she still plays now.
" Little Raphael, " as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art.
Spencer's idiosyncratic drawing of a large fairy on a tiny water-lily leaf captures an imagination that strained against conventional rules of composition from the start.