"Memory Bottles" by Almarie-Crista Mercado

Almarie-Crista Mercado is a Digital Media artist who pursued a BFA at San Jose State University. Throughout her educational career, she has obtained many tools and techniques on how to create art through softwares such as Blender, Unity, Adobe's After Effects, and PhotoShop to name a few. She finds the idea of the medium itself intriguing, because her artworks could have varying impacts and meanings due to the form they took in. Through different mediums, she constantly finds new ways of expressing herself whilst also discovering who she is as an artist. She has a growing interest in video art, 2D illustrations, and 3D models. Her artworks have always included aspects that could be of her own experiences, histories she has discovered through education, and/or ideas that were developed from her sheer curiosity and interest. The people whom she surrounds herself with have encouraged her to begin her path of becoming an artist to which they have been her driving force in creating artwork.