Alicia Persaud is an artist from San Diego, California who graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2020. She majored in Art and Film and Digital Media with a concentration in production. She is an artist who is very fascinated with the concept of memory and how it informs her artistic practices in painting, printmaking, photography, and combining these mediums. Her interest in environments, and how we as individuals interact with familiar and unfamiliar environments, are physically represented to display the influence on her identity, time, memories, and overall global perspective. Through her work, she desires to recontextualize her physical and emotional perspective as a way to develop a sense of abstracted vulnerability and reflection with her surroundings. Experimenting with composition and texture, emotionally thoughtful, fluid line work, and color, she aims to create an atmospheric space that places the viewer in a more intimate headspace as an introverted individual who tends to notice and remember details that often go unnoticed. Through her work, she desires to recontextualize her recollections, using physical mediums — painting, photography, and printmaking — as well as her emotional involvement with these processes to bring attention to their complexities, materialities and imperfections, informing how people and places in the public sphere connect to her individual identity, growth, emotions.