Title: 17:00
Medium: Scrap metal, enamel
Dimensions: 18 x 20 inches
Completed: 2024, Private welding lessons with sculptor Joe Carpineto
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Repurposed scrap metal is twisted, welded and painted purposefully to create a three-dimensional sculpture that explores the concept of time. I worked with a torch, metal, and additive and subtractive elements to get the desired result. Like time, the object is layered. A central axis provides grounding for parts that revolve around it, marking a significant moment in time.
Title: Inked Observational Pattern Drawing
Medium: Ink
Dimensions: 24 x 18 inches
Completed: 2024, Carnegie Mellon Pre-College
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Drawn from a still-life and then graphite transferred to create multiple layers. Darker and lighter patterns distinguish depth in the drawing and illustrate an understanding of foreground, background and middle ground. Different elements were chosen to create a sense of whimsy in a usually face value assignment.
Title: To Only Exist in a Memory
Medium: Acrylic Paint, Glue
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
Completed: 2024, AP 2-D Art and Design
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Scholastic Art Silver Key Award Winner 2025: This self-portrait painting is an experimentation with texture and visual form. The concept is about the clarity of memories and how they break down as they get further away, hence the ‘pixelation’ of the memory shown here. My aim was to portray that this particular memory was not a sad passing, but a joyful remembrance.
Title: Girl with Flowers Collage Drawing
Medium: Charcoal, Graphite
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
Completed: 2024, Carnegie Mellon Pre-College
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This drawing class assignment was to research an artist, choose an existing work of art (A Young Girl Reading, Jean-Honoré Fragonard) and transform it with our own work. I wanted this piece to come across as warm and caring instead of the original which shows a woman inside a cold bland room. My choice of flowers from my own garden enveloping the figure helps create a different story to tell.
Title: Butterfly Perch
Medium: Ceramics
Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 11 inches
Completed: 2023, Wheel Throwing, High School Art Class
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This sculpture, created in Wheel Throwing class, is part observational, part imagined. The concept is about an appreciation and recognition of the natural world, as if the core of the earth stretched out a hand to appreciate all the beauty it’s created on the outside.
Title: Tipped
Medium: Graphite
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
Completed: 2024, Carnegie Mellon Pre-College
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Still-life created in drawing class. The assignment was to choose a vantage point and draw from observation. The final piece is engaging no matter which way it is turned.
Title: Nature and Bones, 2D to 3D Transformation
Medium: Cardboard, Acrylic Paint, Modeling Paste, Hot Glue
Dimensions: 24 x 4 x 13 inches
Completed: 2023, MassArt Pre-College
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This sculpture was inspired by my thoughts of old monuments that get reclaimed by nature and broken down. This is the same process that happens to our bodies over time. The assignment was about transforming a 2D image into a 3D sculptural piece.
Title: Nature Journal
Medium: Plant based pigment, Ink, String, Chipboard, Glue, Fabric
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
Completed: 2024, Advanced 2D–3D, High School Art Class
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A journal created with non-traditional materials. This project was about experimentation, surprising results and exploring the origins of food and spices and their cultural significance. My process included research, making pigments from foods and spices (turmeric, beets, cabbage and more), painting with the pigments, drawing and writing with ink and creating the final sewn binding.
Title: Dragon
Medium: Ceramic Sculpture
Dimensions: 12 x 13 inches
Completed: 2024, High School Art Class
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A hollowed form created in Advanced 2D–3D. This sculpture uses underglaze, clear glaze and overglaze. I was inspired by childhood connections and the concept of growing up. The sculpture focuses on the aspect of a childlike sense of wonder, making it into a physical object that one could still tangibly hold on to.
Title: Eggs, Observational Drawing
Medium: Colored Pencil
Dimensions: 11 x 7 inches
Completed: 2024, AP 2-D Art and Design
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A still-life drawn without using local color. A venture into what another entity might perceive in the natural world.
Title: Tangled Butterfly Screen Prints
Medium: Acrylic Ink
Dimensions: 19 x 13 inches
Completed: 2024, Carnegie Mellon Pre-College
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Two single-screen prints created in printmaking class, showing experimentation with color and form. Made as a diptych in the sense that the pattern of butterflies is meant to be completed and continued when looked at side by side. This piece was an exploration of what it means to be whole and the imagery of “Life is always greener on the other side”.
Title: Blackberry Butterfly
Medium: Ink, Linoleum Print
Dimensions: 6 x 8 inches
Completed: 2024, Carnegie Mellon Pre-College
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Created in printmaking class for the theme ‘summer fruit.’ This print was carved into hard linoleum and printed with black oil-based ink. My intention was to encapsulate the idea of sprouting and coming to life with the plant emerging from the thick black border.
Title: Still-Life Paintings
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 18 x 12 inches
Completed: 2024, Carnegie Mellon Pre-College
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Two observational studies created in painting class. The one on the left is a 45 minute study. The one on the right is a 10 minute study.
Title: Hidden Message
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 18 x 14 inches
Completed: 2024, AP 2-D Art and Design
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Exploring design with a background painted by hand and messages hidden throughout. Morse code is used to express feelings that lie beneath the surface and are often difficult to access. What appears to be a superficial design disguises true meaning.