Dissimilar is a painting created with colored pencil and acrylic wash, depicting a jellyfish. I was always fascinated by how the jellyfish looked surreal and alien in the dark, but entirely different when taken out of the water and into the light. Inspired by this “dual quality”, I wanted to capture the multifaceted aspect of living organisms. I traced the jellyfish with iridescent liquid from a glow stick using a thin paintbrush. In the light, the painting seems like any other piece, but in the dark, the jellyfish emits a blue glow, showing two very different sides of the same subject.

Knock Off; an attempt at poking fun towards consumerism and our obsession with brand names. I aimed to draw a connection between the successful mass produced products under a huge brand like Apple with an ordinary fruit that is produced in a similar fashion. I used an Exacto blade to carve the Apple logo onto an actual apple, and inserted a pair of earbuds and batteries.

Illuminated Words, is created with the use of chicken wire and a lightbulb. I molded the wires into a face with the help of a model, and I inserted a bulb into the mouth of the mask. I wanted to create a physical representation of how ideas flow out of the mind; the left side of the image shows a mind that is afraid of expression, giving off a cold, restricted quality, while the right side shows a mind that lets its ideas flow freely, represented by the warm light of the bulb illuminating the mask.

Blossom, is a depiction of the relationship between technology and humanity, and how the two areas are slowly merging with each other, despite being unalike in origin. To make the sculpture, I acquired a bone fragment and hollowed it out by extracting the bone marrow. I filled it with soil, and then inserted an asparagus stalk and an iPhone charger, intertwining the two objects together. The combination of the natural plant with the man-made charger creates a sharp contrast, yet, the fact that they both stem from the bone vase and curl around each other emphasizes how close humans have become with technology, and how the byproduct of this relationship can blossom into something unnatural, yet beautiful.