Art

 

What happens when two people fall in love? They become interconnected and fully twined together. Sometimes being in love is suffocating as two people overcommit and feel stuck. I wanted to portray a negative aspect of falling in love and how it can leave two people feeling like they have to be together at the expense of their own happiness. Commitment, connection, attachment; falling in love draws two people to a state of obsessiveness.

 

Ananya Jain is  a senior in high school at Parish Episcopal School, Dallas TX, who discovered her love for art at a very young age. Expressing herself through color and mark making has always been a part of her. Today, she enjoys creating realistic pieces with oil paint and acrylics, often depicting her  friends and family.

 

Fariha Zaman is a high school student from India. She is an Author, Poet and an Artist. She drew this Art Piece to express the serenity found in the mountains and the hills. She believes in expressing emotions through Art and Writing.

 

 

Katie Terrell, an undergraduate junior at Stanford University majoring in Art History, creates art as a form of stress relief. Her art is characterized by a unique style of abstract geometric forms, featuring crisp lines and sharp angles that enable her to communicate intricate feelings and concepts. Each artwork reflects her inner world, giving viewers a glimpse into her thoughts, emotions, and experiences.

 

Huan (Joy) Gu is a student at the Cheltenham Ladies’ College, UK. Her artworks are inspired by her city walks and restaurant hunting around Shanghai. She focuses on the dynamic and fluid lines of infrastructure from her photography of buildings in both London and Shanghai. Together with these lines and an antique background, she created “Metropolitan lines”. Her interest of food prompts her to ponder about the relationship between diet and mental wellness. We live in a world where everything is easily accessible, but the knowledge of harmful effects due to these conveniences is concealed. Through her pieces, Joy hopes to reveal problems related to health and wellbeing for the society to discuss and improve. At the same time, she desires to inspire those encountering her work to focus on loving themselves as a crucial goal in life. She has initiated this process by informing more communities of the health effects of fast food by publishing an art piece called “Cezanne’s Takeout” through the Celebrating Art contest in 2022.

 

Jenny Zou is a Junior at York House School. She enjoys acrylic, oil, and watercolour painting and suffers from existential crises about her artistic career. Jenny appreciates greek column orders and can be found cooking up bizarre recipes in her spare time. Jenny also loves cats and hopes to own one after she leaves for college.

 

Anne Louise Phillips is an independent author, photographer, and freelancer. She is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in English. When she’s not writing, studying, or taking photos, she loves traveling and meeting new people.