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Sally Deng is Chinese-American artist based in LA. She has numerous awards and mentions including but not limited to The American Illustrations awards 2016 and 2017, and mentions in Forbes Artists under 30. Her art focuses on numerous things including environmental issues, racism and immigrants, and the virtual world.

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Artist's Choices: People in tree watching and not moving.

Issues Addressed: Climate change + Global warming. People are just standing by and watching the destruction of the world as we know it. Commentary on goverment's lack of reaction on the climate crisis. Draws attention to climate crisis.

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There are lots of art pieces that surround the idea of family– more specifically 'found family'. This is seen in culture within race, immigration, identity, groups of women, bondage, connection and society. There are also lots of discussions on change or the push towards change.

Sally Deng attempts to spread light on Chinese women immigrants and challenge the traditional values and stereotypes set on them by painting the women in places of empowerment. She paints about globalisation and the effect of humans on nature and to each other. Sally Deng makes us question our place in the world and the security we have in it.

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-She explores the impact of globalisation on identity.

Sally’s curiosity with people and her community leads her to investigate the relationship between individuals and their environment. Each drawing has its own story, and she takes a lot of time attempting to understand the interaction between people.

-she explores how cultural and social factors, like ethnicity, nationality, gender, have on an individual's sense of self.

-how are two people reacting to each other?

-how are they responding to the environment

-how do they exist in these spaces when they’re alone?

She believes that body language, and how a person interacts does not just suggest an identity of the individual but also the relationship between different subjects within the image.

-She wanted her art to have an emotional pull, so that people would stay with the artwork longer

The canvas is like a diary, showing the artist's journey in figuring people out.

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Technique

Sally Deng uses bright and vivid colours to represent the joy and energy found in life and contrasts it with dull and dry paint strokes to convey the detachment of life. She also uses a transparent hand being grasped and held by the pale olive gives a sense of longing and connection.

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Artist's Choice: Brush strokes with head. Makes it undefinite uncertain. Compared to blonde white people

Issues Addressed: Identity specifically immigrants. Comparison of culture ans pressure to conform yet unable to conform/fit.

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Artist choice: the only man in the middle has a blanket, and is sleeping on the mattress, while others are sleeping on concrete.

Issues addressed: Privileged people, and the immigrants. all the immigrants are suffering,, begging for help, but the privileged could not care less about it. tis represents issues that exists in today's world, especially in the US, where sally Deng is living in.

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Artist's Choice: Contrast between with pencil drawing and solid drawing (stands out). Internal vs external (wanting to be like pencil drawings but showing solid coloring).

Issues addressed: Identity and wanting to express self but pressure isn't allowing/ pressure to conform.