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Channeling Superheros in My Drawings
The idea around it was a vigilante whose power involved art. She is drawing herself in the middle, with the hero’s she knows on the right and villains on the left. The drawing is unfinished though, so you can still see the background and half drawn characters while still seeing what they look like.
17 Hours Before
This film is about a ballet dancer losing one of the most important things in her life, one of her legs, and the chain of events that leads up to that tragic situation. Though she has been through a horrible accident, support from her mother helps her keep determination to try and get better.
Blossoming
I call this piece “Blossoming” because it shows a flower opening up which to me also represents blossoming as a teenager and coming in to a full bloom.
Between Life and Death
I love nature and I’m very inspired by it, so the piece comes from nature and natural themes (flowers and skull) I’m also interested in folklore and magic, so the insertion of the fairy.
Beautiful, but Invasive
My love for the ocean and the environment has always been a huge inspiration for me.
American Lion
This piece depicts my struggle as an Asian-American finding my voice while being Asian in a western world, and western in an Asian world.
Academic Pressure
"Academic Pressure" is a captivating work of art that sheds light on the unseen challenges faced by students.
Space Mountain
In this artwork I chose to do the ride in Disneyland Paris called Space Mountain.
Mother Earth
I wanted to do an art piece about female beauty and want so I made my piece about Mother Earth in the universe.
Northern Lights by E. Esenvalds
Over the last few years, we've performed Northern Lights three times in my children's chorus, and every time, I was assigned a different voice part. Because I love how nicely the different parts fit together in this particular song, I decided to record this song but with all the parts performed by me.
Five Bagatelles, I, II by C. Vine
Carl Vine’s Five Bagatelles were written in 1994. The fifth bagatelle (not included in this performance), was written when Vine was asked by the Australian National AIDS Trust to play at their 1994 fund-raising dinner.
Hippocampus
This is a piece about growing up. I decided to compose a mini room using objects significant from my childhood. The vibrancy of the colors and surrealistic scale give the room a dreamlike quality, representative of core memories and the emotions of adolescence. I used figurines and toys I collected when I was younger, and I built other aspects of the room (including the chair and window) using cardboard followed by a paper mache process. After finishing the actual creation of the room, I photographed it and first made a black and white ink study of the lighting. Finally I painted the room using acrylic on an 18” x 24” sheet of gessoed watercolor paper. The entire process including building the room, photography, and the ink study took about 32 hours. The final painting took around 25 hours. I wanted to paint something representing the growing pains most teenagers experience. The happiness we can find in our nostalgia about the carefree innocent emotions that seemed so easy to access as children. Sometimes we find, in our reflection of the past, an escape from the responsibilities of growing up and the impending reality of adulthood.