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Well 2012. thanks


Well as the year of 2012 which was suppose to end everything comes to an actual end i just want to reflect on the things that really made this year amazing!

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 The wrap of my high school life was ever so perfect. I had an amazing art class that follow me for all of my high school career and I can’t say enough how much all the friendships that came from that really mean to me!  I was so blessed to be surrounded by so many talented people that happen to be my best friends too!

      ImageI got to experience prom with a date which is was also one of my bestest friends. Thanks to him for making my wish to have a date to prom come true. I can’t  emphasize that enough how much that means to me. As an artist at the high school level I got to create what i really wanted and create the environments that I dreamt for years then had the pleasure to debut the body of work to the public along with my peers senior thesis work too!

ImageMeanwhile, I also was chosen to be the first high school level designer to ever show in a RVA Fashion Week event. I was lucky enough to be schedule to be in the finale show and got to debut my first truly full fashion collection entitled Gridded Organza in a professional environment. So thank you for RVAFW and I hope to work with this amazing team in the near future! All in all the ending of my high school life was amazing! I solidified friendships, artistic voice, and goals as an artist. It was the last time I was a little kid and it was amazing and I will never trade with anything in the world.

     ImageNaturally in the fall of 2012 (since I graduated from high school) I began my new journey at MIC/A (Maryland Institute College of Art!) Literally the best thing I could of done for myself. Sure I always wonder what would happen if I went or applied to more school but in the very end I and pretty solid that I belong at MIC/A. I create a new life for myself with a new but strangely familiar group of close friends. I am just overly too thankful that I had the luck to meet each and everyone of them! As an artist I got to start fresh but still have the advantage of knowing all the knowledge that I already acquired during high school. I got to began to make something of myself and really begin to start craving into my future.

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  And to combine them together I got to celebrate the holiday season with both parts of my life; first at MIC/A which our first Christmas as a group of friends together and we had the amazing opportunity to really bond and show our love to each other. Of course back at home  I hosted my annual Christmas Potluck for my art class and we did the same and swapped stories about our new lives we made while still having nostalgic of the times we spent with each other.

2012
12/27
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Uncharted.


Yes the summer has finally come for me. No more rushing around to photoshoots and desperately scraping time to finish project but I loved every moment of it. I have finally come to the point of the year I can just lay around with a good book so a sketchbook and let myself rest and vent whatever comes to my head. Also I have the chance to go back to my roots. My roots that are deeply engraved into the Chinese American culture of West Los Angeles. I can go enjoy and observe the familiar yet foreign setting of Los Angeles. Yes, this happens for me every year. The one thing that is always bond to happen; to venture back to my childhood home and pretend to relive my past just for weeks of my life and refresh my reason why I deal with all the works of wanting to make something of myself. The one thing that is different about think year’s routine is that when I go back to reality there will be no more familiarity to return to. There will be no more high school of familiar faces and the same circles of friends. All the circles have said their goodbyes and went their different ways. We are forced to grow up and the ones who didn’t bond for a life of limbo; wanting to leave but staying for the dead memories.

I have said my goodbyes to childhood and teenagehood peers. Friends that watched each other grow up and learn from each other. When I go back there are few days left for bliss of being a kid. No need to be responsible. I will be there to just having a few last laughs with the people that have made an inpack with my life. After off to a far away place called MICA. Here there will be a new pool of people who are focused, artistic, and driven to make something of themselves. Yet at the same time there will be no soul that I will know. No one I can hide behind and pretend to be sheltered by. I will be forced to be make new friends and create new bonds that I can’t even fathom right now. I know I will find at least a small group of peers that find each others interests interesting and fulfilling. The future looks bright yet still uncertain. I want to chart my own future and create something that not even myself can hope for…. I just have to prepare myself for failures and dead ends. I have to keep myself hopeful and youthful about everything. The saddest thing to do is let a dream die.

I’m proud of my work and where it has gotten me but I can let my pride get in the way of letting it get me some where. Let do what it must so which is help me achieve my goal.

2012
06/24
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“Narrative,Baroque,Nostalgia,Victorian”


Yes! Yes! Yes! Thanks to MICA they made the most flattering comment about my art and me in general at the most recent National Portfolio Day at DC. So basically for each school we wanted to meet with we all stood in line for hours on end to have portfolio reviews with admissions of each school.

With MICA ! it was amazing! It was something that more of giving you more inspiration and less actually only praising or shooting you down. Like some schools MICA is very progressive so they don’t see kids as just kids, they see them as individual voices so their theory is that you can personalize your schooling to fit your need. Since now and days jobs aren’t looking for your title anymore, they are looking at your work. So really they  were really out there to help you out.

What they said about me was first very informative and really eye opening! I haven’t really truly realized how my art is really displayed or photographed. Really they MICA guy was telling me how in my older work, it was very static,romantic,beautified…but what else about you comes through the pieces? They said, there is an clear evidences that you are technically skilled but how can you used that to navigate through to your personal voice? With the more current work like the rooms that i have going right now he can see the more creative,risky side of me. Its less of the “ooo…its beautiful and that’s just an amazingly detailed” to “why is this put there?” it just raises more questions that the viewers can respond more to. Also he made me think more with really me as an artist using my rooms as a subject piece like in photography. He said make photographs showing the narrative like how a viewer would see it….basically really interact with it.

BUT my most favorite piece he told me is how he describe me piece as it has a sense of nostalgia, Baroque, Victorian…. he basically references to my outfit and how playful yet formal it was and how that playful outgoingness should be more evident in my work. Which I completely agree with that statement. So far I felt that I’m just doing things that I know I can do well since our class is graded on how many completed pieces so sadly this stops me from trying risky things sometimes but for MICA opening that option i would love to do that now! Hopefully one day I will be blessed to go there and really experiences what he is telling me but for how..more high school.

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