At the start of this project, I really did not know what my main goal or vision was for this piece.

This is a scene from my trip in Yunnan province, China during summer vacation.

I found the image on line and that was something I wanted to draw because I heard a lot of things about the butterflies and because it's something beautiful.

Using saturated colors and gestural brush strokes, I show my thoughts of a memory of calmness and freedom.

Through life we make connections and attachments to various things.

This piece is meant to portray the beauty of nature, while also showing the damage we have caused to it with plastic pollution.

Inspired by city nightlife, my art transformed from an inside joke to spreading awareness to women about the dangers of drinking.

This art work reflects on the amount of processed foods that are in a lot of Americans' diets and some that shouldn't be consumed at all.

This is an assignment where I was required to take my reference photos while wearing a hat!

My friends and I went on a day trip to San Francisco, we ended up by the Battery Boutelle/Golden Gate Lookout. It was in the middle of the day and still quite cloudy so the light was quite uninteresting. We were trying to get down to the beach below but ended up walking through the bunkers on the way. While going through the bunkers we found this hallway and on the other side, there was a wall of graffiti. I figured this was my chance to get the best out of the light since the inside of the hallway was in the shadows and the graffiti was in the sun. This let me get a great deal of contrast in the photo. This showed me how you shouldn't wait for the perfect lighting conditions to go shoot as you will miss out on so many moments but try to adapt to it and become a better photographer.

I wanted to show the mess of life simplistically and thought a smart way to do this was with water droplets. The amount of them is distorting and that is the point. It has no focal point, but still the detail of being water droplets. I also made it black and white to highlight how simple but confusing the photo is. It shows my life and how distorted it can be. Photography has always shown how I am feeling and I believe that this photo shows my life through and through.

While watching a motorbiker performing outrageously risky stunts at my local county fair, I shot this photo on an iPhone 10. I was awed at how the man, unflinchingly launching himself and his motorcycle 30-some feet into the air, performing all manners of tricks, was unphased by the danger. Did he have that pit in his stomach? While we, as spectators, stared on, unable to tear our eyes away from him, he very much appeared to be soaring, free in his own way. But, I wondered, when he contorted to be upside down, staring straight at the hard ground below, how could he feel anything but like he was falling? I saw the worst-case scenarios in my mind’s eye. But as I watched him soar into the air time and time again, landing each time eager for more, I considered his bone-deep self-faith and trust in himself - his courage. It was admirable; he had the guts. It inspired me to find that sort of bravery in myself: yes, maybe he did feel like he was falling, but he reframed the moment to feel like he was soaring. After all, courage is a state of mind. I pushed the colors to a saturated point to mirror the biker’s boldness. The shot places the subject in the center of the frame before an uninteresting background, forcing the viewer to look only at the biker and consider the inherent risk, and evident courage, showcased in his position.

"Grandeur" is a photograph of a Bas relief in a building of my school, I took the photo with my camera, and then I developed it into the darkroom of the highschool. The composition of the photograph was using a low angle and focusing on shadows caused by the relief. Also, the photo was shot in a sunny day. With my composition I want to show the majesty of the reliefs who also stand other arts; drama, dance and music.

My personal belief and philosophy surrounding photography is that through observation, I am fully participating in my environment. Once you take the time to acknowledge plains and everyday occurrences, you start to see the world differently. Suddenly, you will start to notice how everyday objects can look very fascinating when aligned together in a certain way. Most of my work does focus on geometric shapes and lines. When I see these geometric shapes in a spontaneous moment, it feels very jarring.

This artwork was taken outside a hotel in Los Gatos. I saw it, and went "that would be a great photo". I I then imputed it into lightroom, and played with the lighting to make it clearer. I also added a few lighting to the background, to make sure that the flower is the main focus.

This piece comes from a collection of works I did centered around the theme of identity and how it connects to self expression. Photography has been a large part of my life since the beginning of my high school career; It became a large part of how I expressed myself and put my ideas out into the world. For these reasons, this piece specifically means a lot to me as it is meant to convey how artists become a reflection of their own subjects. By putting my model on both sides of the camera I conveyed the theme of being both an artist and an artistic subject.

A rose, a symbol of love and passion, hangs heavy with rain. The background is out of focus, in dark shades of green. I found this photo on a walk past a community garden.I have always been a fan of symbolism, and saw the way that water clung to the petals of the rose as a sobering symbol of a bittersweet loss.

I’m drawn to black and white photos. They allow for a more abstract depiction of my surroundings. I am deeply intrigued by portraits. In my experience capturing a person's essence in one photo is one of the hardest things you can do as an artist. I find that one of the best ways to show who a person is is to place them in the environment they feel the most comfortable and allow them to behave naturally. I’m excited by the narrative power of photography. I also love how photos allow for many different understandings. This photo was taken at the Albany Bulb, a common destination for my mother and I, and was shot on an analog camera with black and white film.

Ever since I took this photo, it has quickly become my favorite photograph i've taken. It wasn't a whole set up moment, I was just walking around with my friend, and I thought that it would make for an interesting photo. Doing portraits of Grey(the person in the photo) are always fun, he wears outfits like in this photograph daily, and it's very easy to just feel when a good photo with him would appear. He is the main reason why I fell in love with portraiture.

This is a shot of my friend climbing up s beautiful cave. I tried multiple vantage points and took pictures of multiple people, and this one really stood out to me. I was able to capture the pure focus the subject felt, he was absolutely determined to get to the next hold.