Elle of an Artist

What’s a nice girl like Elle doing in a place like this—six stories above the ground, at 2 AM, with a five-gallon paint can at her feet, hanging over the side of a tenement building, holding a paint roller in the roughest part of.

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“I decided to scale a billboard in Brooklyn. I knew it was tall, but I didn’t realize quite how tall it was until I was on it,” Elle recounts. “I had to climb an existing ladder— which was all rusty, and missing screws. The building next to me was 6 stories tall and the billboard went up above that. It was absolutely terrifying. After reaching the top I just lay there for about 15 minutes with my eyes closed. I finally got my breath back enough to stand and paint the roller piece. I don’t know that I’ll ever try to climb anything that high again… not worth dying for.”