Mandala.

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.

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.

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?

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.

I just think of something that could be cool or that people could derive a meaning from.

These three pieces display certain possibilities of skating on the Alameda High campus. In each piece, skating is revealed differently, which represents the multitude of ways to “open” your eyes to your surroundings.

My first step is often to conceive a draft and draw it at the end.

My piece is a galactic goddess overlooking a small village on the water.

Its about an indigenous family (native in other words) coming home after trying to find food for the winter.

My artwork depicts Mando from the Mandolorian facing Grogu, or "The Child", as a rabbit.

For this piece, I combined my love of skeletons and mythical creatures to create a skeletal study of something that doesn't technically exist; the chimera. Originally from Greek mythology, the chimera is traditionally composed of a lion, a goat, and a serpent, although modern programs such as Dungeons & Dragons add various dragon features to the mix.

It’s a can shape with different backgrounds and colors inside.

I drew the GORILLAZ band, they’re my favorite band.

I wanted to show beauty.

I originally began creating Triangulation with a square shaped idea in mind. However, with the addition of the first triangles, I knew I wanted to continue the pattern.

This piece was inspired by my love for space. Practicing adaptive art making, we were making art based on responding to the needs of the painting rather than a preconceived notion of what the painting would look like.

My piece is a lantern that is loosely inspired by Chinese culture.

I made a "Catrina", because in my country it is very well known due to the celebration of the Day of the Dead.

“roar with heaven.” – a collage representing my music taste and Asian American identity. Inspired by the song “War With Heaven” sung by Vietnamese American singer, songwriter, and producer keshi, I used newspapers, magazines, and a white gel pen to create a collage featuring one of the lyrics from the song.