Vancouver artist Lily Rose Fine just got a cool shout-out from accomplished artist Rama Duwaji, who just happens to be the wife of New York City’s new mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani.

The first Gen Z “first lady” of N.Y.C. gave a nod to the 28-year-old Fine in an Instagram post on Nov. 3, just one day before her 34-year-old husband won the mayoral election, making him the youngest New York City mayor since 1892 and the city’s first Muslim mayor.

Duwaji, 28, an animator, illustrator and ceramist whose illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker and The Washington Post, as well as the BBC, Apple and Tate Modern, posted to her 1.3 million followers a list of “Things I saw in October that made me want to make art.” No. 1 on that list was “Lily Fine’s paintings on beautiful found o

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