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 werent physically together, we were on Zoom, because were still in the midst of a pandemic, and the Brooklyn dweller spent the more frigid winter months in the back house of her boyfriends parents place in Ventura, California.

Forrest grew up in Fort Myers, Florida, and has been an artist since she was a little kid. Her grandmother was an artist, so creative expression was something she was always around. When Forrest was just 5 years old, she drew a self-portrait that left her mother stunned. (Sadly, the sketch has now been lost to the sands of time.) During middle school, she started playing around on her familys computer, so her parents bought her Photoshop. Thats when her love of graphic design really blossomed playing around with the Adobe software to beef up her pre-Facebook social media accounts.