Having been freelancers for much of our pasts, we know how difficult it is to secure nutritive and rewarding work. As well, we know how hard it is to be stable in meeting such projects with high aptitude. So when we see a continual stream of great, high-order projects, spread over years, and coming from a single designer like Claire Mason here, we move through a kind of sequence: first there’s admiration, then a kind of over-the-fence curiosity, then dark jealousy, then self reproach, then back to a sturdy/stable admiration.