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Medium: Wire, Fabric, Ribbon, Confetti string, chains, beads, Red envelopes

AI: To reflect the human desire for materialism and wealth over cultural values and traditions

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the courtyards by Gian Toledo, Grade 12, shot on iPad A16

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Liminal space and VHS analog horror inspired short film that explores impermanence of family and evokes an uncanny sense of absence; with tension achieved through offset text, corrupted texture, and an abrupt ending.

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Gian Toledo, Grade 12, Medium: Paper Mache, Cardboard, Paint, Sharpie

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AI: Reflecting on the idea that “stress makes you social”, I explore how humans could support one another in times of stress.

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medium: chalk pastel

AI: to portray the safe feeling of being with childhood comfort items. In this case specifically, it's my blankie!! Tapping into the warm feeling of childhood

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Artist: Kara T

Grade: 11

Medium: photography, Photoshop (Canva and Kelki)

AI: Criticize newer generations for neglecting cultural traditional values passed down by elders and giving in to greed.

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Medium: ibisPaint X (Digital), Photography

AI: I intend to show the concept of following in the footsteps of the older generation by becoming a nurse.

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Medium: Acrylic/Wax paper collage, charcoal

AI: I intend to create a collage of myself, backed with my former jaw and held by my current hand. The choppy parts create a startled desire.

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Medium: Acrylic Paint

AI: I intended to create a piece that conveys the feeling of following the crowd and conforming to neurotypical standards by depicting a person wearing a medication bottle transformed into a goggle lens.

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Medium: Plaster, wood plank and dowels, rocks, wire, acrylic paint, spray paint, hot glue

AI: I am intending to create a piece which expresses the weight and pressure of holding up and supporting one's community in the face of injustice. Particularly in a society structured by and around men

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Rin Korad | Grade 11

AI: I intended to portray people's reluctance to use their prescribed medications because of the guilt of relying on them.

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Medium Acrylic paint

AI I intend to create an acrylic canvas artwork to convey the dissolution of one's identity growing up and the recollection when matured.

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Medium: Chalk and pen

AI: I am intending to make a pen and chalk artwork of two arms arched, with different stresses hanging over each to create tension between violence, desire, and death.

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Alternate Title: Rinse and Repeat

Artist: Hannah Chhar

Medium: Digital (Printed as physical coloring page) (maybe will be printed and colored with....)

Grade: 12

SEE PROCESS PHOTOS HERE (It was a bumpy road)

AI: A part of re-parenting involves what you didn't receive as a child along with rekindling your childlike wonder and creativity. This coloring page, based off of Old Habits Die Hard, can be viewed as a sort of squeal to Do you wanna go for a drive? where one is finally in touch with ones inner child. The coloring page also presents choice, where one no longer has to drink oil, no longer has to be confinded by their upbringing and has permission to move on, to heal. In the form of a coloring page, one has the freedom to color their world however they want, they can drink whatever they want. This is healing. This is returning to the child like wonder and allowing yourself to be.... you.

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Artist: Hannah Chhar

Medium: Digital (printed sticker on milk jug, some filled with paint or or motor oil)

Grade: 12

SEE PROCESS PHOTOS HERE

AI: Complementary to Nutrients, these labels bring to life the oil product advertized to bring success to those who drink it. The product emphasizes striving for perfection, discouraging failure. The product aims to sow insecurity with one's imperfections, developing pressure to pursue only the best, relating to academic rigor and pressure that is repeated by parents.

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I don't know where this journey will take us, but I want you there with me. 

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Artist: Hannah Chhar

Medium: Digital

Grade: 12

SEE PROCESS PHOTOS HERE

AI: An extension of Daily Commute. Finally taking the first steps to allow your inner child―and yourself―to heal.

“Hey,” he says. It's the first thing said during the entire drive. The kid looks up, eyeing the back of his head, responding with a questioning hum.

Another swallow. He feels lighter, safer. He feels ready. “I‘ll take care of you,” he says quietly, trying to not look back at the child. But he gives in, he allows himself a glance back at his younger self. “Okay?”

On the side of a hill. the city below them sparkles. The little one blinks in the mirror before leaning back comfortably, returning to watching out the window. A slight smile pulls on the child’s lips as his heart pounds a little harder.

An ocean of lights, from cars, homes, streetlamps, and life. Realizing in a vast sea of people and places and experiences, we are here.

A pause. A breath. A patch of condensation growing on the window. A response. A mere simple word, a word that becomes the world. A word that is permission to heal. All the child says is, “okay.”

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"Hey," he says. The first thing he's said the entire drive. The kid looks up, eyeing the back of his head, responding with a questioning hum. Another swallow. He feels lighter, safer. He feels ready. "I'll take care of you," he says quietly, trying to not look back at the child. But he gives in, he lets himself glance back once more at his younger self. "Okay?" On the side of a hill. the city below them sparkles. The little one blinks in the mirror before leaning back comfortably, returning to watching out the window. A slight smile pulls on the child's lips as his heart pounds a little harder. An ocean of lights, from cars, homes, streetlamps, and life. Realizing in a vast sea of people and places and experiences, we are here. A pause. A breath. A patch of condensation grows on the window. A response. A mere simple word, a word that becomes the world. A word that is permission to heal. All the child says is, "okay."

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"Hey," he says. The first thing he's said the entire drive. The kid looks up, eyeing the back of his head, responding with a questioning hum. Another swallow. He feels lighter, safer. He feels ready. "I'll take care of you," he says quietly, trying to not look back at the child.

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Medium: Wood Corkboard spray paint

AI: I Intended this chair to be really uncomfortable but still moderately functional. the backrest and handrest have small screws sticking out as to not allow slouching or possible dozing.

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"Maybe they were right. Maybe they did know best.  But I know better... right? I can't help it... Why... Why can't I just let it go..."

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Artist: Hannah

Medium: Gouache, watercolors (barely), colored pencil

Grade: 11

SEE PROCESS PHOTOS HERE

AI: I intend to depict how one has become conditioned by ones parenting where, as an adult, with so many other "healthier" options and opportunities to grow and move past their childhood, they ultimately go back to the harmful rhetoric of their parents. Thus, developing a sense of self-doubt and even a growing feeling that they are unable to be independent, further accumulating into a sense of dependence on their parents in a way. A feeling that one is almost lost without parental guidance wheather said guidance is harmful or not. Yay!

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"I told them that the other humans don't drink oil. But they keep insisting, saying that the gears in my head will stop working if I don't drink."

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Artist: Hannah

Medium: Gouache, watercolors (barely), colored pencil

Grade: 11

SEE PROCESS PHOTOS HERE

AI: I intend to communicate the ways in which parenting can be more centered on a parent's perspective, where what they believe is the best for their child is in reality almost detrimental (a classic!). And for the child, feeling alienated in comparing one's own parents to that of other children who seemingly understand their wee little offspring better. I also intend to touch on the pressure of upholding a family image, where the portraits in the background seem to hint at a more "traditional" family life. Wahoo!

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Medium:

Air-dry clay, watercolor paint, and nail polish

AI:

I did a small sculpture of an assortment of shells incorporating my object into the body of the shells. I went for a more realistic look although the object incorporation adds a hint of surrealism, something I carried over from the last piece and enjoy putting into my pieces. Each clay figure is sculpted with detail and texture and then painted to mirror the real-life model. The object in my shells is an old pocket watch that my grandma gave me.

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Artist: Thomas Truong

Medium: Acrylic Paint

AI: Facing rejection, the penguin is exasperated and antagonistic toward the world. However as the day goes on, the anger is tempered and transition into a softer ire. But it is a good catch and subsequent meal that completely changes the penguins outlook on life, a boost to happiness. No longer trapped within it's own head space, but flowing with world itself. Nonetheless there is a sharp feeling of bitterness toward those who rejected the penguin. Rather than make a fuse the penguin moves on with it's life continuing to following the flow. With this character ark I wanted to share someones triumph over their emotion and ability to continue forward in life, so that the viewer may be inspired to continue forward in their own life.

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Grade 12

Medium: pen & watercolor

AI: Assimilating into ISB, a paradise amongst high schools, driving me to change on a fundamental level and in a vulnerable state. However, I will never be accepted by the angels because of the lack of history and a conflict within myself to completely change myself.

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Artist : Rebeca Guzman

Medium: Digital Art

AI: I intend to convey the feeling of womanhood in culture and its isolation. the beauty of life surrounding you with different influences, meanwhile your exterior is portrayed differently and viewed as young and pure like a flower. this piece is intended to portray the difference in womanhood and its forced self discovery and external pressures and priorities.

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Artist: Jayden B

Medium: Watercolor

AI: I intend to convey wanting a creation coming to life, the drawing it’s suppose to symbolize the mind of a child, simple and but creative. The messiness of the background, flower, & branch connects to the way a child’s mind isn’t fully developed & isn’t complex compared to an adults. the drawing extending to 2 pages encapsulates the growth and expansion of the mind.

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"Even with a hatred for driving, a hatred for the smell of gasoline...."

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Artist: Hannah

Medium: Gouache, colored pencil, cardboard

Grade: 12

SEE PROCESS PHOTOS HERE

"Even with a hatred for driving, a hatred for the smell of gasoline and the mechanical nature of the automobile, I appreciate the places it has taken me, the good and the bad."

AI: There are things that one does not particularly like or enjoy but are an essential part of one's identity or daily life. Maybe it isn't ideal or what one expected or wanted, but regardless, there are still some things that can be appreciated. Even if one's upbringing isn't perfect, there are some things, some moments, some experiences, memories, actions, words, lessons―thanks to said upbringing―that are a valuable piece of one's identity. Appreciating the places life has taken one, the good and the bad.

This piece may be the start of acceptance. Recognizing one's own independence and acknowledging the past that has led them here. Yipee!

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Artist Khoi Tong

Medium Acrylic Paint

AI: I intend to convey unity between three separate ethnicities Swiss, Japanese and Vietnamese and the cultural similarities they hold.

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"I just want the best for you. The life my parents couldn't give me, the life I couldn't give myself. Let me live through you, even if it is just for a moment" 

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Artist: Hannah

Medium: Water color, alcohol markers, colored pencil

Grade: 12

SEE PROCESS PHOTOS HERE

AI: This piece complements an earlier piece of mine, Nutrients. In this piece, the robot parent, in their attempt to heal their own inner child, masks themselves with a strive for achievement, using their child's achievements in an attempt to heal themselves and the achievements they were never able to have, thus developing this image of an overly achievement hungry parent and thus harmfully impacting their child. So, there is this face-value image of harmful parenting and a bad parent (materialistic in an achievement sense). But they are actually "broken" themselves, and are simply trying to mend themselves, not able to see the harm they are doing. Essentially, the piece explores projecting. The parent is blinded by the oil, they are broken (leaking and broken oil pipes), and that then translates into their own parenting in feeding their child oil and ahhhhh. It's a whole thing. Joy!

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Artist: Juvenal Salazar Santibanez

Medium: Oil Pastel and Graphite

AI: I Intended to convey the law enforcement cracking down homeless camps thus forcing them to venture more into the public city and now hostile architecture is being adopted and now they are caught in a limbo of where to reside as homeless shelters are limited, camp sites are being outlawed and the city is unforgiving.

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Artist: Thomas Truong

Medium: Acrylic Paint

AI:  I intend to convey that not a single word be spoken in order for one to be excluded from a group, which is most damning to those without a group to begin with.

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Artist Khoi Tong

Medium Paper Mache, Cloth Mache, Acrylic paint, ribbon, metal wire and cloth paper

AI: I am intending to convey the connection of ethnicity through culture. The money tree signifies the connection all three cultures share (Swiss, Vietnam and Japan) and the birds symbolize equality.

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Artist: Adrien Y
Grade: 11th
Medium: textile, sowing, tape, and glue
AI: The jacket represents the victims after bullying in a metaphor in relation to me. The duct tape signifies metal plates of armor as protection. There is more protection on the front then on the back as I trust my friends and close ones more there is less protection.

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Artist: Kalen Higa-Mar
Grade: 11
Medium: Film (on iPhone 13 pro)
AI: I intended to depict my everyday life with the workload of the IB program and how I'm able to endure it through my social connections.

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Artist: Adrien Y
Grade: 11th
Medium: sharpie, colored pencil, and hard paper
AI: In this art piece, I wanted to convey the message of how it looks like to be the victim. Furthermore, what the world turns into for the victims - the eyes, the smaller perspective, the monotoned world, etc.

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Artist: Adrien Y
Grade: 11th
Medium: Digital, sharpie, colored pencil, and hard paper
AI: My goal through this art piece is to show the hateful language that I had to endure, during the pandemic. As well as, the jacket that I kept close to my chest throughout the time that I was bullied.

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Artist: Venus Nova
Grade: 11
Medium: Silk Fabric, Lace Fabric, Mesh Fabric
AI: I intended to create a two-piece outfit including Japanese Cherry Blossom for a photo shoot that I plan to include in my third piece. I am intending to explore the preservation of traditional feminity and how stereotypes may be intentionally leaned towards as a way to embrace traditional feminity

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Artist: Ethan Q
Grade: 12
Medium: Pencil
AI: I intend to portray one's conflicting responsibilities to their ethnicity and nationality, acknowledging the history and modern implications which they present.