‘Teenagers and Identifying Their Place In The World’ is the theme my artworks follow for this exhibition. The theme is supposed to allow the audience to dive into the feelings of an adolescent in the different situations they encounter; a look into their daily life, their dreams, their struggles. Being a teenager is something the majority of the world will or have encountered -- it’s a time in our lives where we’ll discover about our true selves, what we enjoy and what we don’t. In short, it’s fair to say that the adolescence part of our lives is a period to learn from the ups and downs. I hope my works can relate with my audience of similar age, that they’re able to resonate and not feel alone to the fact that other people around them have experienced similar things; and for the older people who have ventured to my pieces, I hope that they look at them and be able to be taken back to that time in their lives in where maybe they had felt more carefree. Although some of my artworks have a heavier topic entangled in them, I had wanted to make sure that all of the pieces were still fun to see. I worked with a lot of bright colours to envision a moment of fun and lightheartedness, which i hoped with this effect i’m able to remind the audience that the time of being young is supposed to be reminded greatly and with a happy mind.

When going into this journey, I struggled greatly with understanding my own feelings and ideas. It was scattered around the place, and most times even when I had a topic, it was difficult for me to put it into works as all of the engines in my brain started to grind, my mind battled on which concept I truly wanted my artworks to look and feel like. Art is a wide range, my works will not look the same as my friends, and the majority of the time we would be trying things that are very different from each other; but it was up to me to try make my works of one pace and language. Even though i had come into visual arts with a lot of drawing experience and whatsoever, I realized i had a lot to uncover with myself as a genuine artist -- i faced a lot of struggles with the new concepts given, the guidelines to follow, but with that i had found what i was capable of doing and what i was not. We were always trying out new things, (which at the time i may have found absurd as I was already much too comfortable doing the techniques and mediums i’ve known for far too long now) and it made me found a new love for ideas that i had never been brave enough to do. Some of my works include an original character, which I learned to love creating.

I hope my works could resonate with people and their thoughts they can’t seem to get out for themselves, that it serves as a comfort that people understand their struggles and their joys. Art is subjective, as you might have heard thousand of times before, but it’s true.