An enormous influence on my art comes from my experience with American culture as a Chinese immigrant.

This illustration is the result of an obsession I've had with both the art deco and art nouveau movements.

In my AP art class we are told to choose a theme to base all of our pieces on throughout the course, and this artwork is one of those pieces.

This painting has embarked on a journey with me.

My artistic piece means to show how emotions within a teen can feel overwhelming.

After piecing different parts of nature onto one's face, I use this piece to show that nature's beauty varies in different ways.

This artwork displays the sensation of burnout, more specifically academic burnout.

My artwork was developed with acrylic paints and a canvas.

In art class earlier this year I had to construct a mask using a variety of different textures and patterns.

When I’m making art I like to envision my idea and bring it to life, no matter how long it takes me.

This piece was meant to reflect the bittersweet feeling of change.

Over the course of around 25 hours, I drew “Winter Kiss” with soft pastel sticks and pastel pencils on 12x16” Pastel mat paper.

This piece is titled, "Speedpaint". I have never used Procreate before and for the Creative Youth Awards, I wanted to try out a new digital art program.

This piece was inspired by Hongya Dong in Chongqing China and its amazing architecture and atmosphere.

I grew up hearing “The eye is the window to your soul” and people would say that they knew who people are and how they felt just by looking into a person’s eye.

I call the piece 'Acquainting'. I'm a true hopeless romantic and have loved horses my whole life, so I wanted to make a piece of two horses just being cute and checking each other out.

Rough And Ready is a very small town in Northern California.

My artwork is a 3 dimensional, functional, hollowed out cat sculpture depicting the joy I get when I see a cat.

In this piece, I explored the theme of duality and the complexity of human relationships.

My art work called blooming star is a color pencil piece that represents how I was feeling very bright that day.