By Samantha Kang ~
Emma Clement, currently a senior studying civil and environmental engineering, is passionate about helping the environment. She is doing undergrad research in environmental engineering, is in the Society of Women Engineers, volunteers with Girl Scouts and is the president of On My Honor. Clement has always enjoyed drawing and photography since elementary school, and she continues to create art whenever she can find the time. Fun fact: Clement can ride a unicycle – when she in middle school she thought it would be funny, so she bought one and started to learn.
Clement has had many pieces published in Kalliope: the 2016 edition includes “Decorated” and “Silenced”; the 2017 edition includes “Zebra”, “Umbrella Cat”, “Rising Panic”, “Heron”, and “Snowy Nittany Lion”.
In the “Umbrella Cat”, she simply found it kind of funny – she loves cats and loves to doodle, and thought it would make people smile.
“Zebra” is from her trip to Africa while she was on a safari.
With “Rising Panic”, Clement thought of how feeling panicked seems to fill you up, which is how she had the idea of water rising in a human-shaped container.