2022 Submissions
Terrestrial Teapot
My process with sculpting has been iterative; the final work reveals itself over time. My current, more structured approach is to sketch out my ideas, revise them, and create paper prototypes before starting to work with clay. I take the concept assigned in class and try to not follow any script.
Untitled
My box is inspired by the stressful times of 2020. I designed the outside of my box with clouds to represent calmness and relaxation. I find clouds to be very peaceful and watching them relaxes me. During the stay-at-home orders, the uncertainty and isolation caused anxiety and depression.
what’s in my head
This piece simultaneously represents my experience of synesthesia and the frustration of having social anxiety and all the ideas and things I wish I could say that only come out through art or around the people I trust.
Planter
My creative process is never consistent. I go through different mediums all the time. For painting, I've never actually been in a class, so I guess you could say I'm self taught. I didn't know how to paint realistically for a long time so I would try and end up hiding behind abstraction.
Shedding Creativity
Words are just a construct: little letters pieced together, sounds slurred together, methods to get across an idea. What makes humans humans? If they aren’t words, if they aren’t the technologies, aren’t the buildings, what are they?
Textbook
For my piece of art, I designed a dress made out of retired textbooks from my AP Environmental Science class. At the start of the school year, textbooks filled the back of my Environmental Science class, waiting to be sent to the landfill - in participating in a class about pollution and climate change, the irony was not lost on me.
The Nihilist
I have always been fascinated with complex rhythms and time signatures, so I decided to compose a piece in 11/8 in my favorite style: heavy metal. It's an absolutely crazy piece with challenging riffs and solos along with a fast tempo.
Unconditional
I love music, which includes singing. I have been singing for a long time, when i realized i also love making my own music. I love writing songs and creating tracks for them as well. I use garage band most of the time to compose tracks of my own and i hand write my lyrics in my song notebook.
Two Comfortable Fish
My class visited the California Academy of Sciences for a field trip. While we were there, we wandered through and marveled at all of the different exhibits. The one that most sparked my interest was the aquarium.
Daisy Days
This photograph was taken during a sunny day photoshoot; I saw the opportunity, and I took it.
Fiery winter
This is a uniquely edited photo, I was experimenting with natural landscapes and was trying to change the circumstance of the photo from a sunny day to a fiery winter.
Cabinet Reflection
I have selected this photo because of how weird and strange the photo feels. The way I positioned it, the cabinet at almost a 45 degree angle, and the small mirror on the left side, also at about a 45 degree rotation, is angled in such a way that the part of the right cabinet being reflected off the mirror on the left looks like it is just another part of the cabinet, when the left corner is hidden behind the larger cabinet.
Painting with Light
This is a unique technique in photography called painting with light. I set up my camera and set it to long exposure and quite literally painted around the flowers with light.
