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Tessa Forrest is the kind of person you meet and immediately feel connected to.
The 28-year-old graphic designer behind the popular Instagram art project Subliming.jpg has an ease and a warmth about her, which came across within the first five minutes we spent together. Of course we weren’t physically together, we were on Zoom, because we’re still in the midst of a pandemic, and the Brooklyn dweller spent the more frigid winter months in the back house of her boyfriend’s parents’ place in Ventura, California.