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Visual Art, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Visual Art, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

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.

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Film, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Film, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

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.

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Visual Art, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Visual Art, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Burn-Out

When I conceived this self-portrait early this school year, I was deep in the college application process and attempting to balance a busy student and teenager life.

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Visual Art, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Visual Art, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

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.

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Visual Art, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Visual Art, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

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.

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Original Music, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Original Music, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Armada

Initially inspired by Hans Zimmer's score to 'Dune', Armada started as a one minute piano audio clip that I recorded in a practice room at school after the idea for the piece struck me.

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Music Performance, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Music Performance, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

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.

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Dance, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Dance, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Nocturne

This dance piece is a solo choreographed by Eddieomar Gonzalez Castillo. As I workshopped this piece, I experimented with the subtleness between the piano keys.

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Visual Art, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Visual Art, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

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.

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