My Artist StatementMy name is Augusta Pointer Mace, and I am a Junior at Ronald Wilson Reagan High School. I was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although I'm originally from San Francisco. I believe that creating art is an base human instinct and the most interesting lens to view history and the present day through. For me, art has been a productive way to take my most complex emotions and untangle them to see what's been going on underneath the surface. Significant parts of myself, like my gender identity, are only something I've been able to realize through my own art and consuming the art of others.
In my two years of IB Art here at RRHS, I wish to explore themes of alienation from the self, as well as how our views of intimacy as a society have evolved and devolved. Most of all, I wish to express emotion through my art in an authentic way. |