Tessa Van Bussum is a videographer and editor who resides in Tempe, Arizona. She is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Digital Culture in the Barret Honor's College at Arizona State University. Van Bussum specializes in digital media and technology, hopes to continue her work in photoshop, adobe illustrator, and adobe fusion 360, and has recently expanded this creative practice to include projects in Max MSP and JavaScript to produce sound responsive environments. Her work is featured on her social media platforms as well as in full on her website, LookingintotheUnknown.com. In the future, she hopes to see her own work additionally featured in local film and music festivals. With an initial passion for media and filmmaking, or just being a ‘confetti brain’ in general, Van Bussum has established a foundation, and will continue to improve to a point where she considers her editing skills to be at a professional level.
As a young artist, I’d like to think of my artwork as exploratory, with what is seemingly an infinite amount of un-open doors for me to walk through on my career path. The experiences that I have in learning about myself as an artist are the same experiences that I use while working on a piece. The majority of the work I create revolves around displaying the hard parts of life, the pieces of our not always rose-colored existence that the majority of the population would prefer to sweep under the rug. The principles of design that I exhibit are emphasis and movement, and with each piece I hope to leave my audience with a lesson they can take beyond the work itself. My projects seek an answer to how societal environments affect how one both lives their life and views themselves. More significant than my emphasis on specific elements and principles of design, the general theme places a spotlight on mental health issues and body dysmorphia, particularly in the feminist lens. My work follows a conceptual trend of using an assured audience to speak on the unspoken struggles of growing up in a generation that emphasizes change and highlights struggle.