When Window Studio started, I shared the space with Fredricks & Mae, a pair making hand-made bocci balls and other decorative items. As part of my artistic practice, I like doing watercolors from direct observation to warm up, and I asked them if they would mind if I used them as models. W. was working with them and he liked the portrait idea so much that he agreed to be my first model. He decided to wear a set of African warrior beads that he had made while working with Fredricks & Mae.