I have to say that while it's not what I would be thinking in the moment my house was burning (maybe I'd get there eventually), I can honestly see your character doing this. Someone so involved in their art and what kind of a future that could bring would think quite like this. Realizing fault for the candle, but then extracting a positive outcome to it—meditation and the starting of a painting to fetch thousands. Delusional? Maybe. Wrapped up in her own world? Definitely? But would she carry on? Absolutely. Sometimes being caught up in yourself and your creation is the best place to be. :)