Marissa Plant is 21 and wishes she could be best friends with Seth Green.

MOSSLESS: Your mentor was Susan Bright. How was your experience with her?
MARISSA PLANT: Susan Bright is an amazing person and I was really glad I had her as my mentor. She gave me great ideas to further my project and helped me narrow down which photographs to use in the show. She even helped me edit my artist statement and expand my ideas. She gave me a lot to think about such as how the public will view my photographs and how to title my images. 

ML: Can you tell me something about how you exhibited your work?
MP: I had a really hard time trying to figure out which photographs to use in the show.  I had first planned to use sixteen pictures but after seeing them up on the wall, I realized how overwhelming it was to have that many. Less was definitely more in this case.  I had Susan Bright as well as two other teachers at SVA look at my work to help me narrow down the selection and come up with an order.  The end result was nine images. I also played around with which color frames to use. At first I waned to use black, but with many suggestions to see what white looked liked, it ended up looking much better.

ML: What was your most memorable moment at SVA?
MP: My most memorable moment at SVA actually wasn’t really at SVA.  I took part of the SVA Shanghai summer residency program this past June.  It was three weeks of learning about the culture, arts and food.  I was able to go to many different museums as well as do some exploring on my own.  One of my favorite teachers at SVA, Abby Robinson, taught the class there and really made the experience come to life.  I had such a wonderful time photographing the city and meeting a lot of new amazing people. 

ML: Where do you see yourself in five years?
MP: This happens to be one question I’m really hating as of late, unfortunately that’s what you get for being senior! I really want to do something in films, particularly cinematography or shooting photographs on movie sets. I’ve always been a huge fan of the cinema and I really want to have job associated with movies.