Artist of the Week: Paloma Gustafson-Ika

Name: Paloma Gustafson-Ika

Grade: 10

Tools: Pens, computer paper

Inspiration: “Usually, like everybody else, it’s love interests or lame stuff like bugs and birds.”

Future Plans: “I haven’t really figured it out yet. I know I want to do art, because that’s all I do. But I’m sort of morally opposed to art careers because a lot of the time it’s like you’re paying someone for self expression and I don’t really believe in that. I don’t really believe in getting paid for sports or art or entertainment, really because you’re not really doing anything.”

Recent Work: “Pretty recently I was in chemistry class and I started doing some doodles that were chemistry based and that was pretty cool.”