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Issues addressed: This painting is part of a collection called Fly girls, this collection was made as a homage to the pilots of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. Clearly as an appreciation for their work and to emphasise their contribution as women.

Artist's choice: All the people in the painting are women. They are in different colors, representing their activeness and diversity. The background is white to foreground the women and their activities.

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Issues Addressed:
This illustration depicts the deterioration of the earth because of climate change and human intervention.

Artist choice:
This is actually an animation that starts with a nice forest and ends up with a dry and burnt one. This is a representation of the consequence of climate change: the destruction of nature. Also, the ones looking at the fire are kids, this is to portrait that they are the ones that are going to suffer the consequences of climate change.

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She is an American-Chinese artist. Her work expresses her identity as a Woman from LA. She loves nature.

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Issues Addressed: This artwork represents the feelings of isolation and alienation that many children have to face. It is not just the language barrier that often separates these children from the others, but the perceived cultural differences and the indescribable yet suffocating feeling of being 'different' and away from home, where you truly belong. This can be a difficult time for so many children, who are already adapting to being in such a new environment with nobody they know.

Artist's Choice: The main visual elements used in this artwork are the use of background and foreground to separate two groups of individuals. While the children in the background represent the American children, who seem to be playing around with each other and intermingling, the children on the 'outside' of the group (both figuratively and literally) represent the immigrant children, who feel as though there is a wall, or a barrier between themselves and the other children that they are not being able to overcome to truly integrate into the community.

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Issues Addressed: This particular piece was created by Sally Deng for the New York Times, as part of a series depicting the cultural struggles of migrant families living in USA. This artwork has become increasingly prevalent to the events occurring in real life, as the I.C.E has become more brutal with immigrant families and the US has increased their measures to prevent illegal immigration.

Artist's Choice: The overwhelming use of the white colour in this artwork creates an unwelcome, uncomfortable, lonely, and bleak feeling, which is only reinforced by the two armed guards standing in the background and the red buildings lined behind them. This simulates the environment that many immigrants have to live and survive in, and the emotions that they experience in their journeys. The two guards in the distance represent how there is always someone watching you to see if you fail or make a mistake, and that this presence can be omnipresent for immigrants trying to make a living in America.

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Issues Addressed: This artwork succinctly and perfectly depicts the realities of countless families that immigrate to America, from countries such as Mexico. It is often the case that parents have to work minimum wage jobs that require endless hours of work just so that they can earn enough to send their children to school, in hopes for a better future for them. This painting has been inspired by a real life story, as well. 'Francisco Preciado migrated to the United States at age 6, entering with his parents under a program that provided agricultural jobs to Mexicans. He took a job as a groundskeeper at Stanford University. His son Frankie later graduated from the school'.

Artist's Choice: By putting Frankie's father in the background, the artist is making a direct connection to the reality that parents, and immigrant parents especially, often put their own desires, ambitions, and lives in the background and their children's futures on the foreground so that they can create a better future for them. The emptiness of the school suggests that it is past the time that school closes. By showing  Frankie studying on the bench regardless shows that children that come into the country also have to work much harder to be able to achieve as much as the people born in the country, and that they have to put in a lot of dedication and commitment to succeed.

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Issues Addressed: Being an immigrant herself, Sally focuses a lot on the experiences and lives of immigrants (and especially undocumented immigrants) in the US. She looks at the hardships that people have to face in crossing the borders and the conditions that they have to survive under, just so that they can ensure better lives and more liberties to their families.  This particular artwork is inspired by a story of two undocumented teenagers crossing the Mexico-USA border.

Artist's Choice: In this artwork, the visual element that stands out most is the use of the colour, and in particular, the colour blue. Generally, blue always symbolises the feeling of loneliness, sadness, and despair; and that is what this artwork conveys. To add to this feeling further, the curled up positions of all the people emphasises the cold, desolate feeling. The animation of the limbs creates a restless and uncomfortable environment as well.

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Issues Addressed: This is an illustration by Sally Deng for the 'Eight by Eight' magazine, celebrating the women's world cup in France. It depicts 'L'arc de Triomphe', a famous monument in France, that the women are running towards.

Artist's Choice: Sally Deng uses focus and framing in this particular artwork to direct the reader's attention towards the Arc de Triomphe using the women and where they have turned, which emphasizes the achievements of the women, to not only have won but to have made so many strides in the gender equality to be able to have a world cup.

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Issues Addressed: This artwork is one of the selected illustrations for the collection "outside". This collection is about being in the outdoors and the appreciation Sally has for nature, but in this painting we also see the reflection of the city on the water, depicting the connection between city and nature in LA.

Artist's Choice: The painting uses soft colours and the strokes are smooth and delicate. This communicates calmness and peace. We see the falling leaves frozen in time depicting a moment of quietness and relaxation. But the buildings in the back take us to LA, Sally's home.

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Living in LA is something that really influences Sally's work. Her perspective is from an American Woman, and her Chinese culture also impacts on her vision as an artist. She is a young person that cares about the environment, so we see that a lot of her work talks about climate change, specially because she has an emotional connection to nature and landscapes. Immigration is a huge topic in Sally's work.

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Issues Addressed: This artwork is inspired by Sally's family and the resilience of immigrants. We see a woman as the center of the painting. Sally has said in some interviews that the women around her are an inspiration to her, so this painting connects her identity as a woman and daughter of immigrants.

Artist's Choice: The woman is on the center of the picture, she es elegant and in soft colours (as most of Sally's paintings in this collection). The colour pallet is also warm and cozy, giving us a feeling of home.

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Issues Addressed: This illustration is about how the university of Illinois dealt with professors accused of sexual harassment. Those cases of sexual harassments where not dealt with properly and Sally uses her work to protest against that. This connects with Sally because she is a woman.

Artist's Choice: the colour pallet for this painting is darker than usual, representing the obscure and tense ambience. The women are working while a man looks at them through the door in an intimidating way, showing us the vulnerability of the women in the university. This is a very subtle way of depicting what happened at the university, the tension and conflict going on.

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Sally Deng represents the ever changing and unique identities of three main 'groups' - People who care deeply about their environment and nature, Immigrants living in America, as well as Women. She looks at the experiences of these groups holistically - Instead of only portraying the victories or only displaying the struggles, she creates a balance that closely matches the realities of the people she depicts.

Sally aims to create art that is 'relevant', by researching deeper about the lives of the people she paints to be able to connect events in the past (both good and bad) to the present, and seeing the best way to go forward.