Rights of Every Child
The Rights of Every Child invited me to choose and illustrate one guaranteed right adapted from the 54 articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. I chose the right to protection from mental violence.
Here is my statement:
Violence can leave marks not just on our skin, but also on the inside, like in our hearts and in our minds. Because it is especially hard for children to shield themselves when violence is near, we as a community of guardians have the responsibility to keep the world's children safe. As I was drawing this piece, I thought of the times when kind people protected me from mental violence. Their love and support felt like a warm embrace where I could relax and be taken care of. As I've gotten older, I've learned that this warmth is abundant and it lives inside me too! So I try to share my warmth with people who may need that kind of protection or support.
Violence can leave marks not just on our skin, but also on the inside, like in our hearts and in our minds. Because it is especially hard for children to shield themselves when violence is near, we as a community of guardians have the responsibility to keep the world's children safe. As I was drawing this piece, I thought of the times when kind people protected me from mental violence. Their love and support felt like a warm embrace where I could relax and be taken care of. As I've gotten older, I've learned that this warmth is abundant and it lives inside me too! So I try to share my warmth with people who may need that kind of protection or support.
Does your relationship help you grow?
I was glowing with joy when I received an illustration assignment about the expansiveness of love! Published online as an interactive quiz and in the February 13, 2024 Relationships issue of The Washington Post’s Health & Science Section.
From the kind, listening bunny to the bat bringing heart-shaped cookies to their beloved, the little characters floating in my heart got to come out and play!
Editor: Hannah Good
From the kind, listening bunny to the bat bringing heart-shaped cookies to their beloved, the little characters floating in my heart got to come out and play!
Editor: Hannah Good
Letters from Earthling
“Letters from Earthling” is a four-part epistolary series written by Earthling to their extragalactic pen pal known simply as "Friend.” Published online and in the print issues of The New York Times, Sunday Arts & Leisure section.
Art Director: Jennifer Ledbury
Editor: Rebecca Thomas
Art Director: Jennifer Ledbury
Editor: Rebecca Thomas
A Thin Line Billboard
Billboard design for Galeria Rusz/Rusz Foundation in Toruń, Poland.
When I was sketching ideas for the billboard, the radio was spewing out the latest horrors from Ukraine, numbers and strategies explained as if war were a game with no consequences to humanity. And as I was completing this work in summer 2022, I thought of the Palestinian people facing brutal attacks by the Israeli military.
While I have been privileged to grow up in bubbles of cautious stability, being from a country that committed atrocious crimes, colonized their neighbors, and was later silenced to “peace” by the American atomic bombs, I am aware of just how thin and complex that line is, between war and peace.
When I was sketching ideas for the billboard, the radio was spewing out the latest horrors from Ukraine, numbers and strategies explained as if war were a game with no consequences to humanity. And as I was completing this work in summer 2022, I thought of the Palestinian people facing brutal attacks by the Israeli military.
While I have been privileged to grow up in bubbles of cautious stability, being from a country that committed atrocious crimes, colonized their neighbors, and was later silenced to “peace” by the American atomic bombs, I am aware of just how thin and complex that line is, between war and peace.
An Ode to the Public Library
I wrote and illustrated a poem inspired by a recent "rediscovery" of the library in my thirties. Published online and in the September 25, 2022 print issue of The New York Times, Sunday Arts & Leisure section.
When thinking of the library, childhood memories like R.L. Stine's neon Goosebumps covers used to flood my mind. It was only recently, in search of a quiet space to write, that the public library came back into my life and also surprised me with their wonderful resources, from free English classes to book clubs for seniors.
Art Director: Jennifer Ledbury
When thinking of the library, childhood memories like R.L. Stine's neon Goosebumps covers used to flood my mind. It was only recently, in search of a quiet space to write, that the public library came back into my life and also surprised me with their wonderful resources, from free English classes to book clubs for seniors.
Art Director: Jennifer Ledbury
