What youth mental health challenges do we face? Currently 13 pieces
Author: Emily Wang
Country: United States
Title: The Horse
Description: This drawing depicts a unicorn with its horn cut off, being led by a seemingly invisible lead. The reins are made of letters sent from colleges. The unicorn has the illusion of free will.
Size: 9.5 inch * 12 inch
Author: Yangminyan Wu
Country: United States
Title: Tangled Connection
Description: This piece portrays the external forces of familial pressures, with the red strings symbolizing blood relationships. The grasping hands are drawn to be desperate and controlling. The method of triptych format is used to emphasize a feeling of entrapment, with the person unable to break free of the red strings no matter how “far” they appear to be walking away.
Size: 18 inch * 24 inch
Author: Yangminyan Wu
Country: United States
Title: TBD
Description: TBD
Size: 18 inch * 24 inch
Author: Yangminyan Wu
Country: United States
Title: Inheritance of Shadows
Description: This artwork explores the heaviness of generational expectations on a child of a new generation. This piece captures the struggle among freedom, conformity, and choice, which addresses questions based on the cost of shaping one’s life in order to “satisfy” another’s visions and expectations.
Size: 15 inch * 11.2 inch
Author: Yangminyan Wu
Country: United States
Title: Cleaved Preference
Description: This artwork explores the love choked by generational, family, and/or social expectations. The connection between two people in love is interrupted by hands that are separating these two. This intends to capture the invisible yet incredibly strong barriers of tradition, culture, and duty that limit personal freedom.
Size: 15.1 inch * 11 inch
Author: Yangminyan Wu
Country: United States
Title: Hierarchy of Needs
Description: This artwork depicts myself as the central character. It challenges the logic of traditional human motivation by suggesting that creativity is a raw force of wellness that is from within. It illustrates the struggle between the forced hierarchy of societal expectations and the innate of an individual.
Size: 6000 px * 5500 px
Author: Yangminyan Wu
Country: United States
Title: Versions of Becoming
Description: This artwork depicts the struggles of finding oneself, where identities are blurred similar to overlapping versions of oneself. The multiple faces represent the many versions of oneself, getting pulled in various directions, yet still close enough to represent the existence of a character. I wish to remind other people that we are not fixed and it is normal to go through process of continuous processes of becoming.
Size: 16 inch * 17 inch
Author: Yangminyan Wu
Country: United States
Title: Addiction
Description: This artwork explores the nature of addiction and the erosion of identity that can result from it.
A hooded figure lies within a sofa, their face completely covered by a phone held close to their eyes. Red stitches bind the figure to the sofa, suggesting a connection that has turned comfort into dependence.
The piece reflects how addiction often develops through ordinary actions, such as checking a phone. The red stitching acts as a visual metaphor for the bonds that form through these habits, ones that can become difficult to recognize until they have already taken control of the individual.
While the piece specifically references electronics addiction, it also corresponds to dependency in general. it invites viewers to reflect the point at which attachment begins to transform into captivity.
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Author: Mia Shim
Title: Shattered
Description: This artwork depicts struggles that many teens face through a shattered mirror. Smaller shards reflect struggles like grades and social life. Makeup is smeared all over her face and the nails are mismatched, depicting conformity and covering up who she truly is. Negative words paint the background, showing just how much they affect her and linger in her mind.
Author: Nicole Yang
Title: 1970
Description: As the creator of this painting, why, then, do I choose to express the year 1970 from the perspective of an observer? Perhaps the answer lies in my family history. A sense of heaviness—subdued, restrained, and sorrowful—left behind by my great-grandfather gradually extended to my generation, and then, with the passage of time, slowly came to an end within us. Or perhaps it is because I feel that we are forgetting certain important things from 1970.
Author: Sumika Aoshima
Title: Stained Screams in Silence
Description: Silence has never been silent for anyone. This artwork depicts the lingering emotions and cathartic screams that overwhelm the mind, using continuous-line drawing to express the tangled, yet unbroken strokes of life. It represents the uninvited rumination that surfaces most loudly in stillness, shaped by not external expectations but rather internalized pressure. The coffee stains spread unpredictably, producing shadows that mirror the psychological depth and fragmented identity of the artist, which creates an obscured and ambiguous sense of self. Inspired by a personal, silent battle with self-harm, this work reveals how quietly persistent, blurred voices can overtake moments.
Author: Lukas Hoerl
Title: Reflected
Description: When I get too overwhelmed I always wash my face off with cold water to bring me back into reality. I leave behind me all my stressors and this artwork is just that. I stare into the mirror seeing only a vague resemblance of myself looking back, all my store work, notebooks, calculator, books, behind me as I try to pull myself back into reality.
Author: Yangminyan Wu
Country: United States
Title: Subvert Expectations
Description: This artwork explores the connection between individuality & the expectations created by society. My persona stands entangled among a dense web of real, red threads that stretch across the canvas. Despite being present, this figure appears trapped within “invisible forces”, representing the pressures, assumptions, & judgments that dictate how people are expected to think, behave, & define themselves.
This piece challenges the notion that one’s path should be predetermined by external standards.
Rather than conforming to these roles, it advocates for questioning assumptions, even when doing so causes a sense of uncertainty.
Size: 16 inch * 20 inch
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