Bridget Intessimone, owner at Cabin 7 Originals, is no stranger to Leaf Magazines. Her work was featured on the Culture Issue cover after reporter Kat Wolfe interviewed her back in 2024. This makes her a perfect addition to our Studio Sessions series.
Originally raised in the South, Intessimone grew up being taught that weed and meth were practically the same thing. She and her best friend tried smoking weed in high school, but she said she found it too intense.
At 18, the artist said to the Leaf that she went through a difficult period and became “a full-blown stoner overnight. It helped me eat, sleep, and escape into my art.”
“Cannabis played a major role in my art career from the moment I became a stoner,” she continued. “I invested a lot of time in sharing my art on IG. By the time I was 22, I had 50k followers.”
From there, clients kept finding her, and she went from drawing individual portraits to creating marketing materials, packaging, and apparel designs for brands in the space.
Cabin 7 Originals seem to have a distinctly different-but-equal foreground and background. While the focus is usually on an activity like smoking a joint or hanging with a friend, the backgrounds are fantastical scenes of nature and space inspired by Intessimone’s own travels. You can almost view each as its own piece, expertly dovetailed with the others.
As a very detail-oriented person, Intessimone shared that she’s prone to sensory overload but uses Cannabis to calm her down, sit still and absorb her environment in a way that doesn’t seem so overwhelming. Plus, she said, “finding inspiration is easy when everything looks more beautiful and colorful.”
Intessimone says it only takes a few hits to reach a warm, vibrant flow state where she creates her best work. Once in that state, she said she usually flips on a soundtrack of true-crime podcasts, fantasy romance audiobooks and dark R&B — a genre she described as: “sexy late night haunted strip club music.”
Check out our previous article to learn how she came up with the name Cabin 7 Originals — and see her incredible cover art.
