When I created this piece, I was in an awkward and sad place with two of my friends.

This piece is about how we as people have free will even in the crazy waves of our unpredictable lives we are the boat driving and pushing into different and new places like foreign shores.

This piece was done by stippling with various micron pens.

To explore how grief is expressed across cultures and societies, I chose to represent a faction through Virgin Mary.

This was a piece for my lovely Drawing & Painting class that helped me experiment with different properties and perspective.

My artwork demonstrates my pride or 誇 in being Asian American, with symbols of red, gold, and koi fish meaning good luck.

I want my viewers to see that it's supposed to be a loud and fun sculpture, and I showed that in the hat and the spiked belt.

A sincere thank you to my mother and her sacrifices to give us a better life.

Contortion symbolizes the hard schedules and overwhelming work we have and the lines in the background represent the distractions, but the person is still standing in the end.

This piece depicts a smiling girl, her bright colors fading into black and white like a forgotten memory that slowly loses clarity.

I wanted to experiment with what different textures and shapes I could include in the trees to show how within a group, there can be so much diversity.

My inspiration for this came from a movie (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) and mixing it with on of my favourite other franchises, Sonic the Hedgehog!

The frogs on the skin represents imperfection because they symbolizes something messy, discomfort and disorder, but the boy in the picture doesn’t wash off his mess/ imperfection and instead accepts it.

This artwork represents the story of Gideon in the Bible. Gideon was called by God to defeat the enemy.

The meaning behind this painting is simple: I wanted to capture the feeling of trying to remain calm through tough times, the serene expression contrasting sharply with the blasting explosion.

With this artwork, I wanted to do an exploration of various ethnic groups in China, and explore their cultural clothing and its intricacies.

The bee representing external threats and anxiety, and the limbs crawling all over me symbolize invasive thoughts from outside expectations, pressures and judgements.

“In Transit” is a narrative-piece that documents my daily experience on the bus system through all 5 days of the work week.

This was one of my first oil paintings, and my first experiment with abstract color palettes.

The five cranes and two chocolates represent the seven continents of our Earth, and how they are all at peace.