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The Touch of Life

Touch of Life represents the symbiotic relationship between an artist and their art. It is a take on Michelangelo's “The Creation of Adam” where God breathes life into Adam, the first man.

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The Performance

What does it mean to perform? Throughout American pop culture, countless elements have been borrowed from other cultures and reshaped to fit mainstream taste.

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Mom, What’s for Dinner?

Having found inspiration in the effects of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster on Japan’s fishing economy, I created my work with hopes to highlight how some of its impacts relate to the bigger prevalence of deteriorating food quality and pollution in the present day.

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Alcatraz

For this artwork, I explored my AP inquiry question: How have the physical and cultural environments of the SF Bay Area evolved over time?

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Illuminated

In this image I captured the path of the light arcing through the air. It illuminates the contour of the girl's body and ends in a bird in flight.

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