ARTIST STATEMENT
August's body of work calls upon personal and technological experiences he had while growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s, representing them through digital images, video, and interactive pieces. He hopes to reflect the current digital landscape as well as his own development as a person through his art. He is interested in making art as a way of communicating with others, while expressing his struggle with communication in a world that is primarily connected online. He wishes to transform and reimagine the memories from his youth into something that not only elicits an immediate response of nostalgia from people who shared similar experiences as his own, but also motivates a discussion around this subject matter and its growing acceptance into the art world at large.