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Literary Journal for Young Writers

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Art

Colorpoint

By Seo Yoon Yang

 

I’ve been doing journalism for the past four years, and because I was first introduced seriously to photography in journalism, I was taught to learn to capture the moment, capture the spontaneous, capture the candid. But when I was given an assignment, this was part of my portfolio for an application, I wanted to experiment with photography without having to capture the moment. I wanted to experience photography where I could map out every element, and I really wanted to see what kind of visuals I could get, compared to my candid ones, if they were all set up exactly how I wanted it. I had seen lights and rainbows used by popular celebrities on Instagram, but I wanted to add my own backstory to it. My friend shown in this picture is a dancer, so we styled her hair into a bun and put her in a leotard. Although it is not obvious in the photo, I wanted to capture the feelings of a dancer on stage, the way they look into the lights and the rainbows created by the lights against the air.

 

 

Seo Yoon Yang’s dream is to attend a film college and become a film director in L.A. She started a YouTube channel under her name Yoonie Yang and is hoping to start her film career with that social media program. She loves photography, journalism, and animals.

Yellow Glasses, Yellow Prisms, Yellow Background, Full Spectrum People

By Seo Yoon Yang

For my second piece, yellow glasses, yellow prisms, yellow background, full spectrum people, I wanted to make a point about racist jokes. As an Asian American, I have dealt with racism through a modern form: racist jokes. Being called chopsticks, rice, and yellow were my least favorite. But especially being called yellow. I felt judged and ugly called that color. It impacted my self esteem and the way I held myself to the beauty standard growing up. In the picture, both of my friends are Asian, and I purposely styled them with yellow glasses, yellow background, and yellow prisms because I wanted to portray the idea that although they were surrounded by their stereotypes and the judgments held by others by being an Asian American in America, they could still be full spectrum people, people who weren’t confined by their racial stereotypes. I feel very strongly about this photo because of my backstory.

 

 

Seo Yoon Yang’s dream is to attend a film college and become a film director in L.A. She started a youtube channel under the name Yoonie Yang and is hoping to start her film career with that social media program. she loves photography, journalism, and animals.

Augmented Reality

By Ava Wang

Augmented Reality is a still life painting of objects I found around my house placed behind different glasses of water. With this piece, I wanted to capture the reflections and refractions through a transparent, glossy surface, in this case, glass, and how it alters the scene of a still life. I ultimately used this piece as an investigation of surfaces and visual illusions

Ava Wang is a senior at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. She has works recognized at the city, state, and national level by Wildlife Forever, the PTA Reflections, and the River of Words. She is the Teen Ink Summer Issue Cover Art Winner, Teen Ink #1 Top Voted Photo Winner, and the winner of multiple Editor’s Choice Awards. Her works are also displayed at the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport as well as the High Art Museum every year and had been published in multiple Embryo and Teen Ink Magazines. Additionally, she is the head editor for her school’s arts and literary magazine, the founder of Art Heals Foundation, and a board member of the Together, We Can Foundation. She also enjoys teaching her after-school art class at ASK!

Through the Looking Glass

By Connie Liu

Connie Liu is an upcoming senior from Pennsylvania whose work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Cicada Magazine, and United Nations. She’s highly passionate about conserving the environment, nature, and dogs.

Through the Looking Glass

Human Nature

By Rhea Bhatnagar

Human Nature

 

My work has for the last few months, been inspired by, and evolving around, man as a creation of nature. This piece was inspired by the similarities that we share with nature. Like forests, humans too have secrets hidden behind a mere facade. Beasts thrive within us ,but so do flowers. Here, forests are made to represent the dynamic nature of the unconscious human mind. Just as nature appears to be simple, so do we. However, there lies an often forgotten chaos in the cosmos.

 

Rhea Bhatnagar is a high school student studying at Delhi Private School, Sharjah. She is a passionate feminist and animal rights advocate who likes to spend her free time volunteering at local cat shelters.

Conundrum, Allegro Vivace, Rise and Converge

By Jessica Lao

Conundrum

 

Conundrum came from a concept I had of a scrambled Rubik’s Cube covered in unrealistic expectations of the perfect life, graduation, marriage, media pressures, but with a corner pulled out so it’d be literally impossible to solve. In that sense, the stains leaking outside of the boundaries of the paper allude to how the “conundrum” of conforming to today’s society pervades well into our daily existence. I submitted this piece to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards this year, where it won a Gold Key in mixed media.
Allegro Vivace
Allegro Vivace was based on the flurry of movements at an honor band concert I attended, and to me, it evokes the emotional transformation that music and creation can bring upon us. The style draws from Duchamp and long-exposure photography, and this piece also won a Gold Key from the Scholastic Awards in oil painting.
Rise and Converge

Rise and Converge is a graphite/collage piece also recognized by the Scholastic Awards earlier in my high school career. Fitting the title allusion to Flannery O’Connor’s writing on race relations, the work references both its black and white medium and the convergence of words in the center, a transformation of both art and society into something new and better.

Jessica Lao is a junior at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta. She is an editor for her school’s literary magazine and a top nonfiction writer and Editor’s Choice award winner for Teen Ink magazine. Previously, her work has also been published in Evolutions and Embryo magazines, as well as recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.

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