My art is about the past, future and present. On the bottom were like flowers dying/blooming, because of my past being all over the place. During this process I was originally making those leaves but changed them. In the middle is just a person representing myself and how it’s being injected by azaleas. The stars represent my artwork because I want to continue in the future with my passion of art. I also want to get into psychology in the future. The stars also shows how much I love stars. I usually tend to draw stars everywhere.

Music and art have always been the heart of my journey. From playing the violin and clarinet to learning guitar and dreaming of drums, music helps me express who I am. I create playlists for different seasons of life, capturing memories through sound. Art is just as meaningful, I find peace in painting, sketching, collaging, and even expressing creativity through nail design. Wavy lines and spirals connect all these passions, symbolizing how my life, though never a straight path, flows with purpose and creativity!

This art piece represents my journey to becoming someone I haven’t been before and being patient with current me for future me. The water represents movement and fluidity in my life and how life’s tides can push us through its ups and downs. The hearts and “love” in Arabic represents how everything evolves with love, also adding parts of my culture through the Arabic writing and evil eye art which can represent my identity and how I’m a mosaic of everyone I have ever loved. Overall, I hope you love this piece as much as I loved pouring myself and my passions into it. Thank you!

My artwork takes you through my life from the beginning until today. To start, I have a very diverse family; on my mother’s side, they are very organized, and on my father’s side, they are more creative. I started studying at the age of five in a primary school centred in the art, in Venezuela, where they taught me to draw and to play the violin. Gradually, the situation in Venezuela worsened with more wars and more conflicts, so we had to move to Peru. There I met many people and our financial situation was a bit more stable, with ups and downs. I started playing basketball, singing, and playing piano in Peru for two years. I performed in many singing concerts at bars and released my own cover. After a while, Peru’s political, economic and public safety situation declined, so my parents decided to move us to Canada. Here, I continued singing, and those songs developed into full compositions. I write about the situation in Venezuela, how I feel and release the feelings of two migrations and starting my life from scratch twice. Since then, I’ve made my own music, continued basketball, met amazing people, and built a social life, shaping my life as it is now.

My artwork represents a timeline, what I am now and who I choose to be. I started as the smallest heart, one that toughened over time. This heart didn’t let anything in until it finally broke free from its chains. Now, it has become a huge heart, with scars that show its strength and its will to be great and glorious. It has the power to become the greatest hero — but that heart isn’t fully healed yet. It also holds the choice to become a fearsome monster. In the end, it’s up to God and the good guidance it receives.

The jellyfish represents the quiet, often unseen parts of my journey and floating through life with a sense of solitude, yet moving forward with grace. At times, I feel like I’m just drifting, but like the jellyfish’s bioluminescence, I have moments where I shine, to me, that could be in the spotlight of sports or through the hard work and dedication it takes to be an IB student. It’s a reminder that even when life feels uncertain or isolating, there’s still beauty, strength, and purpose in simply continuing to move and glow in my own way.

My art piece was inspired by Hole Dwelling by Kikuo. I really like their music, and it helped inspire different aspects of my art. Another song that influenced me is All I Need Are Things I Like by PinocchioP. That song made me want to include not just the things I’ve liked throughout my life, but also the things I’ve hated. At the end of the spiral in my artwork, there are a bunch of flowers that represent blooming into the future. In the center, there are music notes — they’re actually a bar from the song 88ミ☆ by Marasy and Kemu. While working on this project, I found myself thinking a lot about the past and the person I used to be. It also made me think about the future and what I want to do with my life. Looking back, I realized how much I’ve grown. This project was really fun to make.

My artwork represents my life’s story. The circular part of the work is like a cage, and inside represents the time when I felt isolated in my own home. Outside the cage is when my parents separated, and an upward path follows my healing journey. I thought this journey was straight at first, but soon it all became messy. It took some time to straighten out the knots, but in the end, I weaved them into beautiful patterns and stars.