Art

 

This photo was taken in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming with a Nikon D5100. My family and I drove out to the Mormon Row barns in search of bison to snap photos of but did not find any. Instead I happened upon this lone tree in the middle of the meadows and captured some photos of my brother standing underneath. 

 

Luke Nelson is a sixteen-year old junior at Polytechnic High School in Pasadena, California. He was born and raised in Pasadena and has been doing photography for about three years.

 

 

 

The subject is an overweight woman crouching down and not looking at the viewer. I wanted to show that there are different body types, and one shouldn’t feel embarrassed for not fitting into the standards. The woman is a physical representation of people who don’t fit into society’s standard. 

 

Lola Wang is a junior in high school at the Taipei American School in Taiwan. Her interests include art history, writing poetry, golf, and creating art.

 

 

If you were given the opportunity—paint can in hand and all—to graffiti anything you please, what would you paint? If you had the power in your hands to cover a public, highly visible fence with inappropriate imagery and hateful slurs, would you pounce on the opportunity? Are you a person who would rather spread hate than spread love? 

 

Jellyfish Dreams (2021)
Medium: Oil Paint on Canvas (18” x 24”)

An Asian boy sleeping or drowning? Regardless, each of his dreams slowly drift away.

 

 

The Cultural Commute (2020)
Medium: Oil on Canvas (48” x 60”)

An Asian Girl on a train is sandwiched between an elderly Asian man and a middle-aged Caucasian man. This piece was inspired by one of my friends. She felt as if she did not fit in with her Chinese culture because of her inability to speak and write in Chinese, which often left her feeling ostracized when she lived in China with her grandpa.

 

 

Edward Zhang is currently a junior at Palo Alto High School in California. He has won two Scholastic Art & Awards and earned a Certificate of special recognition in his district’s Congressional Art Competition. Edward enjoys using acrylics to depict portraits and human figures. Additionally, he writes articles about foreign policy for his school’s Agora magazine. In his free time, he walks his dog Snowy.

 

“Eyes Are the Window”

This was meant to emulate the feeling of being trapped in your own mind and hiding yourself from the outside. People tend to lock themselves away when faced with adversity, but by doing that, are you escaping the world or being imprisoned by another? The character is turned away from a door that they could easily open— but don’t want to. 

 

 

 

 

“Self-Portrait”

This piece is a portrait with the purpose of using looser-than-usual lines and materials I don’t usually work with. It was a bit out of my comfort zone considering it’s much bigger than the art I normally create, along with the use of charcoal, a material I’m not too familiar with.

 

 

“The Working Machine”

This was made to encapsulate the feeling of work overload. I added the plug element as a way of showing how people (students, workers, etc.) are expected to work like how electronics are plugged in, and how unnatural and artificial that feels.

 

Olivia is a sixteen-year-old soon-to-be senior with a love for traditional and illustrative art and writing.

 

This piece depicts the convergence of the hues of my paintings and euphonious melodies. How both of them have the ability to invoke powerful emotions- entrancement, anxiety, hope, craving. How the power that creative expression holds, is almost transcendent.

 

Mihikaa Singh is thirteen years old,  and in the ninth grade. She is profoundly passionate about art, writing, piano, music, and reading. Moreover, she is also a published author and a certified pianist from the Trinity College of London. Most of her canvases feature vibrant subjects, made from acrylic. She writes on the blog- https://mihikaasingh.wordpress.com/