Bio and Artist Statement. Pain. Death. Help me. ::dies::

Priscilla is a junior at The Hockaday School. Other than photography, her extracurricular interests include drama and musical theatre, cartooning, digital illustration, web design, and robotics. Recently, she played the roles of "Mae" in Hockaday's musical The Pajama Game, "Smitty" in Jesuit's How to Suceed in Business Without Really Trying, and "Emily Brent" in Jesuit's Ten Little Indians. This spring, she will portray "Fabian" in St. Mark's/Hockaday's The Twelfth Night. As a member of the JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society), she and her teammates were inducted into "Who's Who in American High School Students" for their performance in an Engineering competition (TEAMS) on a local and national level. She is Brenda Spencer's daughter, and she takes full credit in bringing her mother deeper into the medium of photography. She intends to study graphic and product design in college. Visit her website at http://www.theninemuses.net/


Observation

People often claim that they try to "stop and smell the roses", but how many actually are able to do this? In our frantic, bustling, 21st century lives, it becomes difficult to find even small lengths of time to pause and appreciate our surroundings. By setting aside time to photograph during the course of this class, I became not only aware of the beauty of my environment, but also the splendor in the seemingly mundane.

Must expand upon Artist Statement. Growl.