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My Mama’s Smile

"My Mama’s Smile" illuminates my mama’s persona, with high contrast and a smile of wisdom. The blank background alludes to the everyday feeling of delight. Catharsis extends beyond the performing arts—sometimes the most precious moments are best captured in a bold illustration, an imprint in memory.

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Fruit Parade

This scene was a spectacle from my dream one night. Although it was extremely short, it stuck with me when I woke up and I had to record it down.

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Stormy Eye

My artwork is a mixed media piece. I used white construction paper and began by making a collage, used printed maps, brown paper and magazine scraps.

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Masked Manager

This is a painting of the "Masked Manager" from the now trending show on Netflix. It took me 6 hours with painting steps. I painted and waited for it to dry and continued the process for every step of the painting.

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3 Golden Twins

Making artwork: painting and/or drawing involves lots of determination and also confidence in what I'm doing. With confidence bring energy because it takes out my work ethic and passion so I can work better.

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Untitled

The process I used was to first think of the words I want to implement into the art piece. I just wrote random things that I was thinking about. Then I did a self-portrait of myself in the background.

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Ford Cobra Teapot

My original idea was to create a teapot, however, I wanted to add a creative spin to the simple designs I initially had. So, I decided to combine a simple teapot design with a more complex sports car. I chose to draw inspiration from a vintage sports car, the Ford Cobra.

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Social Studies

In my work, Social Studies, I wanted to show how schools aren't entirely about education, but is the main way a majority of students meet new people.

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Untitled

I wanted to make a piece where the emojis contrasted the background of the piece so the emojis are melting and are warmer colors where as the background is very cold and sharp.

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Breaking Free

This piece represents the different stages of growth as a person. Upon first sight, you see a box that resembles human-like features with feet, a hand which is the handle, and a hanging brain on the inside.

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Fractured Affirmations

To me this piece represents how much we can damage ourselves to create something that is seemingly beautiful. flowers that are put in a vase eventually die, they are not constant, and in the process of potting those flowers the person the body was attached to gave everything for temporary flowers.

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Mother Tongue

I took the Tagalog word used by parents to refer to their child, "Anak," and carved it into the physical surface of the painting using a sharp tool. I also applied several layers of acrylic paint on the background so that upon being carved into, a red color would be revealed.

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