This piece was influenced by my research into psychogeography, which describes the effect of an environment on the emotions of its inhabitants, as well as my research into early highway planning committees in the US and how destructive their policies were to urban spaces. Personal experience directly shaped my work, as it was an exploration of my relationship with public transit in contrast to my relationship with highway transit and how the two differed. The materials and techniques seen were used to create the feeling of recognition, that you could see or have seen this on a construction site or on a walk through the city. Artists that inspired my work were Guy Debord and Asger Jorn, whose work dealt with mapping spaces through feel during the situationist movement in late 1950s France. Sarah Szes was another artist whose work inspired this piece, specifically her work Blueprint for a Landscape, which focused on what a subway stop represented to the different people passing through.

This piece was made to convey how it feels to have your emotions bottled up inside. Specifically, anger. Years of not being allowed to express any anger leads to struggling to regulate emotions. In this piece, it can be seen that there was an attempt at maintaining composure with the hair tucked behind the ear, however the messiness of the hair portrays clear struggle in staying calm. The hand on the face represents the aching need to scream but choosing to hold it in, as it's gripping the face and not the hair. The white noise that is seen throughout the entire piece is the thoughts that run around inside the mind, angry thoughts and thoughts that are intrusive. (Keep in mind that while this piece may conduct concern towards the artist, worry not as this was made through looking back at past experiences and emotions, so it is inaccurate to their current emotional state, however still representative of them).

Two different styles of cat in one car.

Tutorial portrays an analysis of the different materials and objects the artist uses in her daily life. This “goofy” moment captures her decision to mimic a model’s dynamic poses rather than finishing her homework for her next class. As an artist, Hiranmayi is inspired by the moments of simplicity in life. Her desire to render these somewhat insignificant occasions motivates her to be highly observant of her surroundings. Tutorial (2023) is connected with this theme as it shows that she herself is part of a simple moment. While creating this piece. Hiranmayi greatly focused on the recreation of lighting to enhance the main character moment she felt.

I painted a turtle with a fish and kelp because I really like marine life and turtles are very cool. The hardest part was the rocks and the easiest part was the yellow fish. The turtle shell took a lot of patience because it had a lot of layers. My experience with watercolor overall is that it is very good however it is difficult to make small details because is spreads over the paper.

I decided to draw and color a turtle because I like drawing animals. Also, I chose to draw a sea animal because I have grown to like waterpolo ever since I gained the courage to play waterpolo this year.

The process of this piece is a little complicated, and took caution to prepare the plate and paper for the press. I captured the references on my friend Tula's birthday at a public pool.

I was trying to extend my painting beyond the canvas, my mind ran through idea after idea and finally, lo and behold i settled on the idea of neo-scrapbooking; an idea which, not so subtly, combines ideas of crude jury-rigged art with themes of family and remembrance. The piece is of a traveler embarking on a journey and arriving at "the end of the woods". The traveler "Aeon." is depicted as an old man accompanied by two dogs.

This installation is a result of a period of personal growth. Though the work draws from negative experiences, the act of creation renders those memories still, and unable to fester.

While creating this artwork I attempted to capture the feeling of being forced to fit into a societal label. It's meant to feel incredibly claustrophobic and mildly unsettling. The figure is attempting to cram into a box smaller than themselves, but people aren't meant to be confined to boxes and labels, creating the idea you see before you.

A monochrome digital painting that I did playing off of screenshots of footage from trail cameras. I wanted to make it a bit spooky and paranormal, so I set the scene at night and stuck to the black and white color scheme that is so reminiscent of the camera footage :)

In this piece I displayed a gloomy face covered in countless inescapable hands. I wanted to capture another recent phase with my body changing. I observed old and new photos finding many differences and insecurities that had grown on me. Acne, curly hair and no more smiles. I tried to show a lot of emotion, attitude and curiosity with simple strokes creating detailed hands surrounding an irritated face. In the piece, I wanted the hands to mess with my face; trying to bring me back to my younger self. Small, always joyful and funny.

This art piece is a digital art piece I made for my AP Art Class highlighting the feelings I have about living in the Bay Area. The cost of living here is expensive, and it had a negative impact on my mental health. It felt like everything cost too much to live, but the hospital and funeral costs made it too expensive to die. Both subjects are locking in a frozen waltz, dressed up in excess like court fools. The fool on the left represents how it’s too expensive to live, and the right represents how it’s too expensive to die.

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.