Editors Note: Ironically, this Edition features the anything but absurd painter Andrea Olivia. Everyone has a story. No really, it's true. If you're alive, chances are you've done some things, and if you're dead you're probably not reading this. As most artists do, Andrea has lived a few lives, but I knew none of them when I stumbled upon her art at the New York Academy of Art. On my way to the brilliant Paola Yamel Lima's studio at the Academy, I happened upon Andrea's studio and became transfixed on her portraits. I stopped dead in my tracks. I had to know more of Andrea. The rest, as they say, was history. There's pure magic in who she is and what she paints, and so our narrative began with intrigue of the art only to turn into admiration of the whole. Her story is a must read as our feature this month.