Ellie
Kim
Introduction
Welcome to my first page ever, my name is Ellie Kim, and I go to the Rectory school. I have been living with art for my whole entire life, and I discovered that art sparks me up during the 2022 summer vacation.
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The Rectory School
This scene is from the Rectory School Admissions office during the winter term. Using warm colors, orange and cold colors, purple and black, emphasized how our hearts remain warm in the Rectory school during the cold winter.
Friends cuddling together when going to the dining hall and sharing hot cocoas and ramen to share warmness shows that Rectory Community is always warm-hearted, even in the cold.
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Collection of Socks
Inspired by y2k fashion, also known as 2000s fashion. I utilized very contrasting colors such as yellow and green, blue and pink to give a retro style. I added some patterns like polka-dots, zigzags, smiley faces, and ordinary stripes, which used to be the representation of the 2000s.
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Faces
These are the pictures of my friends’ weird photos. Their weird photos just make me laugh out loud, and reminisce all the memories beyond pictures.
The purple one with 2 people in the picture is from quarantining my friend during the school week; it reminds me how fun we had without supervision and binge-watching Netflix together for the whole day and night.
‘Untitled shoes’
Art and Love 13th exhibition
First of all, I would like to say thank you to my art teacher, my mom, and my friends who supported me to participate in the Art & Love program and thank you Art & Love for giving me such a good opportunity for me to express my state of mind. As teenagers go through puberty, there are many fluctuations during that time period. Teenagers often feel like they are losing their own colors as they get old, however, I believe that innateness still exists even though their state of mind changes.
It took a lot of time for me to select an object that can express the way I think. A pair of shoes came to mind. One piece of shoe represents my true self, and another piece of shoe represents my state of mind as a teenager. To express my true self in the shoe, I colored the shoe by painting the three colors separated from each other, which emphasizes how stabilized I am. I also tied the shoe properly to show how balanced and steady I was. However, as I started to get close to being an adult, I started to be concerned about things such as what I truly want to do when I grow up, what I want to be, and what I really like.
Everything was uncertain. I was afraid that I would choose a life route that makes my life unsatisfied with it. I always felt opaque. To express this, I tried to make my shoe messy and out of mind. If people say “Oh, these shoes are very messy looking and can’t identify anything”, I expressed my intention the way it was supposed to be. To express ambiguity, I drew big question marks on my shoe, I used light colors that are hard to recognize, I overlapped some words to make it more confusing and obscure, and I untied the shoe tie too. However, I still tied the end part of the shoe tie to show that innateness still exists even though I am getting through all the uncertainties in my life.
Portfolio
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