I wish I could go back, when everything was easier, when I didn’t care about the future, when I was playing with my parents, watching cartoons, drawing without worrying what others think.

This piece is about moving on from past friendships and the feelings of loss that come with it. It is a self-portrait which I made by closely studying a reference and applying my own stylistic choices and colors.

The smell of gasoline and soap, scratchy seats, and velcro is what I remembered on this train ride with my cousin, before we parted ways to go back to our own home country.

This piece is a reinterpretation of “Our Lady of Guadalupe,” focusing on the interplay between spirituality and human emotion.

Black Camo represents the casualties of war.

Inspiration for this piece came to me as I was playing video games one night with my friends.

”Beauty and Chaos” explores the juxtaposition between order and disorder.

This piece depicts the average scene during my family’s trips, with each pair of shoes taking a piece of the memories from the vacation.

As I prepare to move away for college, I am beginning to see my hometown in a new light as I know that I will soon live far away from the place I’ve lived my whole life.

This artwork is a wrestler named Tama Tonga, who wears face paint sometimes.

This piece is the tangible manifestation of a female defense mechanism for unrealistic societal norms.

I took these images from my homeland Tongatapu , which represents some part of my culture and where I grew up.

Drawing this portrait of myself made me realize a lot of things in life.

I was inspired to draw this because of the movies gladiator and 300.

The painting is a visual representation of my mind, clouded in a wave of dissociation.

So I’m a junior attending catholic high school and wanted got make a painting of something related to our school prayer and I decided to go with the verse hear to serve and I showed it by a couple airplanes going to the heart because they want that heart to serve to help others and show love to people.

This artwork was inspired by my school’s prayer that we say every day before class starts.

A school assignment,

My artistic process was to think back to our school prayer.

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