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As I See It

Put simply: A deeper look into my P.O.V. as a lifelong artist & creative.

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  1. Issue · Oct 1, 2026

    As I See It... The man in the window (opens the original)

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    I hit publish. I wrote the man in the window off as a forever stranger.But a part of me still wondered… now that I knew who he was… should I find him, should I share my story with him?Then Jordan read the piece on his own and immediately responded with: “I think you should reach out to him.” He didn’t know that I had already been contemplating it. I guess that was the push I needed.Odds were that the man in the window would either find me creepy and be slightly disturbed… or he’d find the narrat

  2. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    As I See It… The girl in the window (opens the original)

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    It’s midnight. There’s a man in the window across the street from me. He sits at his computer, mirroring me as I sit at mine. Most nights, I catch a glimpse of him as we’re the only two lights left on. He works from a multi-million-dollar townhouse, as I work from what feels like a shoebox. A stone’s throw apart, both of us still going late into the night.I can’t help but think how we’re living such parallel lives.I don’t know anything about him. I’ve never met him. I don’t know what he’s really

  3. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    As I See It… The things we carry (opens the original)

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    When I was a little girl, I loved these books. A slew of objects, arranged at random. It doesn’t fully make sense, it’s innocent, a bit strange. Displayed across the pages: an island of misfit toys. But here’s the thing: the full picture somehow paints even the most mundane… as magic.In trying to simplify this into words, I realized that maybe this is the best metaphor for my own life.My world is one big book of I Spy…I’ve spent the past 28 years trying to do just what these books do so well: pr

  4. Issue · Aug 6, 2026

    As I see it… Coming home again (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Jul 16, 2026

    As I see it… the eldest daughter (opens the original)

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    The Icon Catalogue officially launched this week. My baby. A collection of 60 original illustrations you can mix, match, and customize into a one-of-one piece of art.From the beginning, I knew this idea would live or die by two things:Education. People would naturally ask, What is this? How does it work?User experience. I wanted the process to be so clear, so intuitive, that it could answer most of those questions on its own.The challenge was that when I first imagined it, I could

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