Nina Friesen's photograph, “Motional Static,” has been selected for the Art.Write.Now.Tour 2015-16.

In the photograph of Lawrence High School graduate Nina Friesen, it’s hard to tell either of the mirror images are her. Blurred by movement and horizontal streaks of digital interference, the photograph does well to live up to its title, “Motional Static.”

But it represents something more as well. “Motional Static,” which has been selected for the Art.Write.Now.Tour 2015-16, was one of a 12-part series of photographs Friesen created on the topic of stress. Friesen said that for her, part of stress is feeling that she’s always going somewhere and doing something.

“I’m always in motion, and the static is the overwhelming force that comes with that,” she explained.

The Art.Write.Now.Tour is the national traveling exhibition of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The exhibit is curated by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and showcases a selection of works from the 2015 Scholastic awards.

Friesen created the work for an experimental self portrait assignment for her photography class at LHS last school year and said it addresses the stress high school students experience when trying to manage school and life. As part of creating the piece, Friesen scanned her self portrait and moved it to disrupt the scan.

“How I used it — the disruptive lines, the colors and the mirror image — was representative of stress and tension,” she said.

“Motional Static” won a Scholastic Gold Key Award in digital arts, which qualified the piece for nationals, and from there it was selected as one of 70 pieces for the national tour.

“It’s fantastic,” Friesen said of being selected. “I feel incredibly lucky.”

Friesen, who graduated from LHS in May, is now attending Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., where she plans to study visual arts with a concentration in photography.

Friesen’s piece will be exhibited for about eight months beginning Sept. 16, traveling to galleries in Florida, Indiana, South Dakota and Nevada.