Synnamon Brown, 20 – Queens, New York

Taking whatever is in your head, or spirit and body, and making it come to life. For example, with my work, it comes from visions that I have or dreams I’ve been having since I was a child.

I am obsessed with mermaids — I have this idea to have this cool nautical art show. Almost like a gala where everyone comes in on some nautical sh*t, and I’ll curate the art. Everything will be mermaids, sea creatures and nautical montages. That would be just the Summer, [for] the Fall, I would like to do a creep show. All of the art would be creepy, and everyone would come in the creepiest gory costume they could think of.