Elizabeth Glaessner in her studio in Brooklyn. Photograph by Hazel Byers.

Our recent Fall issue features a painting titled Big Head, by the Brooklyn-based artist Elizabeth Glaessner: a nearly-seven-foot piece that, for the cover of issue no. 257, we shrank down to approximately six inches by five. This September, we visited Glaessner at her studio in East Williamsburg to take a closer look at her process and to hear the origin story of the painting. On display beside other large-scale works were replicas of the same images, only smaller; we learned that Glaessner paints the same motifs over and over again—often with one hand leaning against the wall, leaving multicolored prints beside her paintings.

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