When I started this piece, I was thinking about how dreams can act as a kind of shelter.

I have vitiligo but no matter what's on the surface everyone is the same underneath.

It’s a dinosaur.

It’s pretty bad.

This piece sheds light on the struggles of Asian restaurant workers, inviting viewers to recognize the humanity behind their services often taken for granted.

Prolonged middle school bullying caused me to eat lunch in bathroom stalls alone.

Part of Yosemite valley .

The landform that I choose is Pillow basalt.

The landform of my painting is the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and I chose it because I thought it was a powerful image to represent the strength and resilience of the Black Movements.

My painting is a landscape painting of sandstone which is a type of rock at the marin headlands.

My painting is of rock called chert that forms in layers of plankton skeletons compressed under the ocean’s pressure, but the metaphor I chose for my painting is talus.

My painting is a painting of breccia, which is formed when lava erupts explosively, causing pieces of rock to break off a volcano and scatter.

Something I’d like people to know about my art work is that I put in a lot of thought and effort into my art work.

I wanted to illustrate my mom’s journey coming to the United States as a young girl who didn't know what to do and decided to migrate due to problems at home.

That feeling after you cut your hair.

I’m very inspired by quilts and textile art, and this came from my childhood obsession with prairie life and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

My Perception of You Is Not Linear chronicles the anthropological desire to be perceived, yet the more inescapable reality of being seen.

I wasn’t sure what to draw at first, but then I noticed my Starbucks strawberry acai cup and thought the strawberries looked so fun and colorful.

As I made this piece, my thoughts revolved around how Halloween felt as a child. Carving pumpkins, eating candy, then having a sugar rush.

Beauty and the Beat portrays the aggressive red colors and hints of dark contrast in my artwork, symbolizing the atmospheric perspective focusing on myself and my friend’s happiness, love, and passion for parties.