from Orangewood Academy
About Me
Ziqian(Alice) Chen
I left my home when I was 16 with a plane ticket from Shanghai to LA. This is my fourth year here in the states. I feel the role of me is always an “adventurer” in these years be here by myself. I like to explore new things and would like to find those beautiful things around me. I believe there are 6 billions worlds exist, because there are 6 billions people and each person's view of the world is distinct and wonderful in different ways.
"Colorful World"
In the first three cards I used charcoals and soft pastel, which is dry like charcoal, but colors. I think the texture of charcoals can show the blue mood of the child well. She/he got so many hurts that she choose to close her heart. In her imagination, the world is full of negative words, cold and detached.
In the next three cards tell us the process that she saw the light coming out of the door and her curiosity brought her opened the door of her heart and started exploring the world. She was surprised that the world is not like what she thought in her imagination. So I used combinations of color to show the surprise and little stars comes out from a kid's eyes. In the last three cards I did a whole picture of the colorful world, and wants to show people how big and how wonderful is the real world.
In recent years, with the development of technology, more and more people spend their whole day just face to their phone and computers. To say they close the door of their heart to touch the real world rather than say they are addicted to electronic product. For them, maybe a beautiful sunset is a good medicine.
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“Beauty will save the world”