Through this body of work, I am hoping to raise more awareness of global issues happening around the world and to visuals that there are a lot of things happening around the world. While presenting my work to others, I realized more than ever before that most people are not aware of what is happening around the world. Which is exactly why I first decided to make “Global Issues” my overall theme.  My body of art impact the audience in such a way that it makes them think about the world that they know, start to appreciate their privileges and hopefully educate themselves on the manners outside of what I cover. Initially I planned to make my body of work centered around the global issue recycling and have each piece made out of recycled materials, but I ended up deciding I wanted to talk about more than just one issue while also covering the importance of recycling.

Throughout this experience I was able to further educate myself on certain topics and pass on my knowledge and importance of the global issues. For example, I was aware that a lot of Uyghur Muslims have been taken captive but only after my research have, I found out that the number of Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps has surpassed that of Jews during the second world war. Or how Asian hate crime has risen over 200% over the last year. Besides gaining factual knowledge I also gained a lot of experience in using different type of medias to create art and how to work with different platforms as a canvas. I learned that most techniques take time in their own way and that there are endless possibilities to what you can use to create works of art, be it paint, paper or even bottle caps. I learned how to paint on glass by layering, how to use perspective and how to work with various types of medias. Besides having a contextual theme that connects all pieces, there is also a physical theme, in this case: color. All my pieces consist of the following colors: grey, blue, yellow, red and green. Not all artworks contain all colors, some more than others some less.