In my picture, I drew a few books stacked on top of each other, along with a graduation hat and a diploma. My promise to myself is to work hard, stay focused on my schoolwork, and complete assignments on time. I will try my best to put in effort everyday to reach my goal of getting good grades.

My art shows a promise I made to myself about improving my daily activity and fitness. The drawing represents focus, discipline, and growth. The person in the art represents me, and the calendar shows a depiction of time. This piece reminds me to stay consistent and take care of my body every day. 

My artwork displays two people hugging overlooking the ocean. My promise is to always have my friend's backs and to offer them support whenever they need it.

My promise is to always spread and share love and kindness to others no matter who that person may be. This promise is important to me because I find that I often don't see the positives in others and; therefore, show them less kindness. This project has made me realize that I don't know what others may be going through and judging them based on how they treat me would be unfair without seeing the full context. With this drawing, I promise to spread love and kindness to others and towards myself. 

My promise made work shows the bond between me and my cousins specifically around watching our favorite English football club Arsenal. The red crest with the golden cannon represents that every week on Saturday at 10:30am we all watch the game together wherever we are even though we live far apart from each other. The 3 largest figures represent the 3 older cousins and the slightly smaller figure on the right represents me. The rest of the figures represent the Arsenal community. The 7 black squares with the 6th being golden represents the sixth day of the week being Saturday when they play. The clock on the cannon represents the time on Saturday at which they play. Just as the Indigenous peoples represent their commitments to each other in wampum belts, I represent mine in this work.

During my creative process, I remembered a promise I made to myself and my parents a few years ago. Back in grade 5, I was a horrible student. I wouldn't pay attention, I was disrespectful, and I would get horrible grades. My average was a C, and I never really considered trying in school. My parents on the other hand wanted me to be successful, but I wasn't fitting their expectations. One day, one of my friends introduced me to different concepts of math. I was immediately intrigued, as I didn't understand how a subject I once found choreful and time consuming could be fun. With the help of my friend and looking at my marks at the time, I made a promise to my parents to try my best to get good grades. I paid attention in class, completed homework, and studied before any assessment. I still remember when I got my first 100% after so many years. I drew a piece of paper with an A+ to represent it, even though 100%s come so naturally to me now. I like how it shows how much I changed academically and how my focus changed from enjoyment to success.

My art work represents my promise to everyone who cared for me. I promised them to not give up even though I'm over the edge getting corrupted in darkness. I promised them to fight the darkness that's corrupting me. I promised that I won't just survive, but dominate the darkness inside me.

My artwork is inspired by a promise that me and my friend, who doesn't go to Harbord, made when grade 8 finished. The promise was to stay friends with each other no matter what we have going on in our lives. In the artwork it shows us together with a heart, while we are thinking about things we have to do, volleyball and good grades. This art shows that you can always stay friends with people if you put the effort into hanging out with them.

I promised to myself that I would workout and train day and night. I will do this to become better at wrestling and become the number 1 wrestler for my weight class in all of Ontario.

"I promise to be the light in the darkness". The glowing yellow represents positivity, while the surrounding darkness represents difficult moments (negatively). Inside the glow, is a small light that resembles myself. Even when things feel negative, I want to bring positivity to myself and others rather than being consumed by them. 

My art shows a pact between Callie and I. The pinky promise shows how I have trust in Callie and the repetition in the background represents the numerous times that Callie has had my back.

This art shows my pact with Korina to never break pinkie promises. It represents the trust that we have in each other.

My Pixel Art features a mountain range with a river. The promise is talking about how we should keep nature sacred. Indigenous people cared for the land, and by following their footsteps, we should too.

This promise is about hard work and dedication towards baseball. It's a sport that I want to succeed in. And the trophy shows that I'm working hard to win. The calendar shows that I'm always working hard and busy. The alarm clock shows figuratively that I put in the work. Last but definitely not least a poster of my favourite baseball team the New York Yankees.

This painting represents the pact that I made to myself. The pact I made was to try and get better grades and work harder for semester 2. It shows the A to the B then the thumbs up signifying the good work.  The clouds are shown to represent my grades going up, because it is from the grass to the sky!

The KFC drawing is based on a promise me and my friends made when I was leaving Jamaica that when I came back this year we were going to meet up at a KFC that we have been meeting at ever since we were 7 years old.

I chose the topic of hygiene. For me, hygiene is very important, and that's the message I'm trying to portray by showing myself with really bad hygiene.