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\u201cMy major in information science ties to people and how technology affects them, so even though I haven\u2019t made art about tech, there\u2019s definitely a link between how I care about people in my art and in my studies. I really like digital art, so I use a lot of digital software. I think it provides a lot more creative freedom.<\/p>\n
One of the pieces I put the most work into was in my senior year of high school. It was a two part series about androgyny. In 2016, there was a lot of news about \u2018millennial pink\u2019, which steers away from the idea that only girls should wear pink, and I guess that was really interesting to me since I don\u2019t really subscribe to traditional gender standards. I wanted to make a series that focused on that idea. I used the Pantone colors of the year: Rose Quartz, and [Serenity]. The style is realistic, but [they\u2019re] bust portraits. If you look around the eyes, you can see drips; it\u2019s fluid. It reflects that gender cannot be condensed or tied to one thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Recently, I\u2019ve been very interested in the value of art as a whole, especially expressing yourself through art. In contemporary art, it means a lot to the artist, but to an audience that doesn\u2019t have a background, they maybe don\u2019t resonate. That causes a whole cycle of like, do I understand art? Do I need to have a formal education in art to understand this? It makes me think a lot about artists on Instagram, like artists that mess around and do what they want because they can. I\u2019m always thinking about, does art have to have value beyond aesthetics?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n