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Project 5

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34.433444, -118.521355 Central Park is one of many public parks in Santa Clarita, California. It was only two blocks from my parents house growing up, and the location of many important moments. Central Park holds so many memories for me. It’s the place where I learned how to ride a bike, how to play soccer and how much I hate running. So many Saturdays were wasted, full of skinned knees, grass stains and sand in my shoes. Bright sunny days where we ran around and hot summer nights where we sat and listened to live bands; these are the things I remember.  I have so many golden memories here, like many people from my neighborhood.

Project 4

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Don’t Noose Sight of What’s Important The generation before us is constantly pressuring us into what they consider “jobs”, the dead-end, nine to five, going nowhere fast kind of jobs. They want us to rely on this one-track mindset, where you do well in high school to get into a good college, taking on thousands of dollars of debt, justifying it when you land a decent job, paying for an education that could have bought you a house while you struggle to find a spouse, then buying a house and car you can’t afford, locking yourself into paying them off for the next 30 years, forcing you to stick with that job you got right out of college, and when you’re desperate for something new, something like the life you could have had, you buy a new car, find a new spouse, and start a new family, because it’ll work this time, but once that first baby comes, you’re right back to trudging up the corporate step stool to middle management, for the stability you tell yourself, where you waste your ...

Project 3

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This linoleum block print is of a beach in Spain, a photo taken through a rock formation. 

Project 2

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Only 80% Only eighty percent of the world has enough food to eat. And every time we go to reach for those utensils, we step on the human rights of those 20%.

Project 1