As a designer, I constantly dream and ponder about a multitude of topics, from what I plan to eat for breakfast to planning out bits of my future. If school, work, and other events never existed, I would contemplate and create forever, acting as a majestic swan with soft and graceful feathers living peacefully in a perfect place. What crushes these hopes and dreams is the one thing that never stops: time. Time has been the root of many issues and can take away from one’s full potential. When I am asleep, that is when I am my best self. The moment my alarm begins blaring for me to wake up and get ready for school, all of my precious feathers are lost when I am brought to reality. The dream word I had built everyday for eight hours in my slumber has crumbled and shattered. I am now immediately transformed into a limited, organic, featherless, paper swan. My piece is a work to portray the bridging and flow from a dream state to reality, and how one is limited not by others or surroundings, but the enemy that never gets off the clock.

Time is a landscape, and each one is painted differently for everyone. Time is like water, rippling under our touch, but unbreachable all the same. It is solemn and endless. Above time's glassy surface we run, painting and moving, hardly stopping to rest. Only when the details of our landscape have flown away do we look at the painting we have created. The glowing memories have escaped into the depths of the past, and so we notice its absence. Many different memories paint time’s landscape. Sad memories can cast somber shadows upon a landscape, but the glowing fireflies of a good memory can light up even the most light-devoid places. Our focus on these pleasant places can give us respite where we can sit down and watch, just for a little. Perhaps a short respite can light up our own landscape, where we can be a source of joy to ourselves. This is an illustration of rest in a forest of faded memories, where the painter of her own landscape finally finds time to see what she has created. Her joy reflects on the area around her, making her landscape softer. Fireflies of core recollections, time’s unfathomable depth, a dark sheen over her environment, and the painter herself, finding joy in what she has created. This is not just a metaphor. This is how time flies.

I was still new to painting and wanted a challenge with colors, but still wanted it to look nice so I chose a reference photo of my baby cousin, lost in thought at his 3rd birthday party.

This colored pencil drawing was created during COVID, it showcases the moment a young lady is thinking about her future and life. It took many weekends to complete this piece, while I tried my best to express my feeling through each details.

A watercolor and colored pencil artwork of a young girl standing in a meadow amidst an array of birds and butterflies.

My drawing is of a dragon coming out from the darkness and into the light of the world. It turns part of the world black as it comes through the abyss. The dragon is new social norms and culture that is created. It disrupts society now because people don't agree with them and the world is ever changing because of the dragon. The dragon is trying to challenge the world and changing it for the better. It is coming out of it's shell and making a change for the better and the worst.

I made this piece because it represent man kind going against nature. That is what the lines going against each other as if people are going against nature and there is much conflict in the world.

The skeleton’s name is Frank. He is like me, dancing with the blue background of depression.

Just wanted to make a flower artwork. I like the colors i chose. Its some lilac that i have painted.

The piece shows the complexity of the human experience and how your perception of moments in time can be completely warped by your view or angle, this is shown by the different zooming in and zooming out panels showing all angles of the riders experience the rider himself doesn't truly understand what is happening and simply goes along on the ride like many of us in our daily life.

It's a portrait-style artwork of Seeyitt Belleavit, a character i made up in my head and designed. I'm rather proud of the design and the shading, and this artwork in general. I've got ones i'm more proud of, but unfortunately they feature characters i do not own, owned by people i cannot ask permission to submit. but hey, next best thing!

My artwork represents how Michael Jordan’s career took many ups and downs but it made him into the man he is today as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

The meaning behind my artwork is how we are still constantly changing every time. We are never the same or the same person a few seconds ago because we tend to have actions in our minds continuously, working, functioning, and living. We take time for granted and slow down. We are prone to consumerist things that give us pleasure. We are advancing rapidly to the point where we live in a world where we constantly focus on the future too much to the fact we bind ourselves in the process of being present here right now, which affects our mental and physical health. The second theme is the whole reincarnation. I have strong beliefs in the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. The things we do good or bad will be the things we are soon to receive or at the end of our lives. We continue learning even past our lives by always restarting and having a new life. We may experience new or old things, but we may never know due to having different lives, and that is what makes life very interesting.

I designed this piece to be a part of the Youth: Water is Everywhere exhibition at the David Brower center in Berkeley in May. I wanted to channel the exhibition's theme of global water issues while also incorporating my own thoughts and feelings about climate change. My goal was to make it a piece very open to interpretation but also one that can show in some sense how all the carbon and oil we have burned to fuel our societies has polluted our air and water and even ourselves. Then building on that to convey how that pollution is slowly creeping more and more into our lives and having a larger effect on us as we try to shut the gushing spigot we created. Those were the central ideas I attempted to build my piece around and I tried to shape the person and their posture and body language to this purpose. I also used color as another of my crucial tools to give the emotions and feelings I intended to the audience. I spent a lot of time going through many iterations until I found the colors I felt created the strongest effect. The initial prompt I used was crucial to finding inspiration to create this piece but I also used it as a sort of jumping off point to create my own interpretations and ideas to convey.

Making this shoe I reflected on the world as it is but if things were altered, what effect might be in place? For this, I chose to change a shoe to become into cheese. It shows how the mice use this as a home and a source of food while the cat is lurking behind in the dark waiting to catch them. Although it may not make sense, art isn’t supposed to make sense! I had a lot of fun creating this and I hope to continue this series soon!

Each name in the picture comes from a specific album cover. Can you guess which album it is based on the name and color scheme? Some are given to you already.

My Art piece was made with acrylic paint. I painted a purple butterfly because purple is my favorite color, and butterflies are my favorite animal/insect. I painted the repeating background red because the colors red and purple have special meaning to me. I painted the background yellow because it is the contrast color of purple.

My favorite part of drawing and sketching is being able to create scenarios in my head and escape the intimidating environments and situations that life brings. The exciting scenarios I create in my head work as a prompt that leads to my process, and style. As I arrived at the Palace of Fine Arts, one of many impressive architectures of San Francisco, a necessary prompt appeared to me. After responding to pressure all day, I needed to de-stress, allowing an electric build-up to release from my body and hands, and into my paper. Not only was I making the prompt in my head, but I was living in it too. I needed to feel a race of speed and messiness. The prompt in my head was to draw as fast I could, with no constrictions or rules. To capture the view as rapidly as I could was the goal. My artwork represents no boundaries or worrisome, but just my pure joy of capturing the general shapes and shadows of the architecture.

This painting means a lot to me.

This piece is about the concept of not being able to ever truly know someone. No matter how long you may have known your spouse, friend, or relative there will always be a part of them that you, as an outsider, can never understand. I believe that women can relate to this concept the most because throughout history women have been resigned to an outlet for the sexual desires of others or a tool for reproduction. The figure in this piece represents how women are scene by society, ie. void of personality, and the pink abstraction at the top of the piece represents the complex world of women's thoughts, emotions, and soul which can never be seen through objectification.