Categories:
English writing
Art
Photography
Unconventional creations
Congratulations to the winners in each categories!
Winners and Runner-ups
English writing
WINNER: 902 Anderson Hsu, "Saving Money as IB Students"
Genre: persuasive essay, comedy
Artistic Intention: I believe "Saving Money" is a topic of utmost importance... and that, as IB students, we should pay more heed to this world-scale crisis.
RUNNER-UP: 1001 Adriana Infanti, "The Garden"
Genre: poetry
Artistic Intention: The concept for this poem is that two "voices" are guiding a child as they venture through a garden, which symbolises a journey of life, depicting the joy of observing and learning, but also the pain of knowing and losing a sense innocence. The poem uses present tense to create a sense of continuum, depicting the twisted beauty of choosing to live.
PARTICIPATION: 801 Evelyn Ong, Poems
Genre: poetry
Artistic Intention: I like to write poems about abstract things or genuine human emotions. My style of writing is mostly free-verse, my poems rarely rhyme. I focus on the feelings and emotions I portray in my poems instead of rhyming them.
PARTICIPATION: 1002 Kenny Wu, "Lilies of Eden"
Genre: poetry
Arts
WINNER: 1102 Aaron Wei
Genre: painting
Size (LxW, mm): 560 x 390
Medium of creation: watercolor paper, watercolor, pencil
Artistic Intention: I want to show the impact of pollution on the environment The mountain in the picture is Yushan in Taiwan. The mountains are piled with rubbish, showing the polluted Yushan. It also shows the carbon dioxide in the sky created by thermal power generation, so that the world knows the seriousness of air pollution. This is a part of my series on the theme of "Influence."
RUNNER-UP: 1002 Michelle Ching
Genre: painting
Size (LxW, mm): 383 x 265
Medium of creation: charcoal, color pencil
Artistic Intention: Depicting Scottish Fold cats' gene disease– osteomalacia– caused by unethical breeding. I used three skeletons to represent different generations and red mark-ups between bone joints to depict intense pain. The hands in the sketch convey the idea of humans treating animals as if they were tools for profit (the composition of the piece is illustrated to be like a puppet show).
Photography
RUNNER-UP: 901 Neil Tsai
Artistic Intention: A toy car driving on the beach.
Unconventional Creations
RUNNER-UP: 1002 Harrison Lin, "Screwed Love"
Genre: song
Artistic Intention: Since singing is one of my choices as my future goal, I started to learn how to produce my own music. This song is an opportunity for me to express my own feelings through my lyrics and melody as a perosn who had experienced numerous failed relationships to show how impactful love can be that it can hurt a person deeply.
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