“Geneviève died today at 1pm.
She was truly driven to work and stay living right up to the last minute, insisting on getting up and going to work in her studio way beyond when many would have surrendered to rest.
Last night and this morning she declined quickly and receded into her own eyes as her body vetoed her wishes, her lungs filling with fluid. She died at home with me and her parents holding her, hopefully having reached some last minute peace.
It’s all very sad and surreal. So much is left unfinished for her. She was a firehose of brilliant ideas that never turned off.
We loved her and everything is weird now.”

https://www.gofundme.com/elverum
http://pitchfork.com/news/66697-genevieve-elverum-has-died/

Wir sehen lange Zeit nur eine Seite eines Menschen, weil wir eine andere gar nicht sehen wollen aus Selbsterhaltungstrieb, dachte ich, bis wir auf einmal alle Seiten sehen und davon abgestoßen sind, dachte ich.

Thomas Bernhard, Holzfällen