The center portrait is a formal graduation photo, surrounded by childhood photos and crayon drawings.

I have so many labels that I thought were permanent and now there shifting like sand.

For my piece, Control, I used photoshop to sketch out my subject and border to resemble greek artwork like on pots, columns, etc while also adding my own personal touch to the style.

To me, a Houdini escape trick like this, is about performing being alright.

I wanted to emphasize the feeling of pretending or putting on one’s best self for others.

I created an artwork called “School Kills Artists. ”

My mother and I are only alive because she was able to have an abortion.

”Glimmer of Hope” shows that despite how trapped someone feels, there’s always hope.

A self-portrait based on The Magician card (tarot), it represents a persons talents and energy.

This piece features Jesus reaching out to light into an ethereal sky setting, hinting at Michelangelo’s famous “Creation of Adam”.

This piece is an abstract representation of distorted memories intertwined with serene, imaginative creativity.

It is impossible to have life without having death.

I have always loved orchids and through this piece I realized just how much I love their vibrant colors and eccentric shapes.

My stone sculpture, Adieu, is inspired by Constantin Brancusi’s recurring theme of birds.

This artwork is the first really big canvas I did, it was very hard for me since I was very nervous about messing it up and not liking the out come.

I wish I could go back, when everything was easier, when I didn’t care about the future, when I was playing with my parents, watching cartoons, drawing without worrying what others think.

This piece is about moving on from past friendships and the feelings of loss that come with it. It is a self-portrait which I made by closely studying a reference and applying my own stylistic choices and colors.

The smell of gasoline and soap, scratchy seats, and velcro is what I remembered on this train ride with my cousin, before we parted ways to go back to our own home country.

This piece is a reinterpretation of “Our Lady of Guadalupe,” focusing on the interplay between spirituality and human emotion.

Black Camo represents the casualties of war.