Sophie Nasvik ‘22

Artist Spotlight

“My work is a process of how I celebrate the past. I use each piece as means to cope, to reflect, to love, to move on. Mainly, it grounds me in the experiences I’ve had with the people I’ve been surrounded by. We’ve all had people, places and experiences change our lives. Transitions from those times are where the majority of my inspiration is born. As a kid, I used to fixate on the fact that every time I thought of one of my favorite memories, my brain would change it just a little bit. Therefore, every time the memory came into my head, it became slightly more warped, becoming a new iteration with each recurrence. That thought used to scare me; I always wanted to concrete the feeling of those memories into something solid so that they could never change. This is why I love printing so much. You can make so many iterations of the same image, but each individual print will come out with their own alterations. In the end, I get to see the series of prints together, understanding each perception of the memory adds to the final product. The original image is never included. The process of making a print helps to turn important moments in my life into something that I can physically work through.”