As a high schooler, it is hard to know who I am and who I want to be as a person and as a professional. What makes me, me? With every new work, I was trying to answer this question, examining various external and internal influences on my identity. This body of selected works is a hub of diverse media, scale, and subject matter, eloquently illustrating the multiple angles of my self-exploration. I explored my self-identity to inspire other teens to discover who they are and strive to be their best selves. My visual narrative of identity should be viewed from left to right, beginning with the story I repeatedly heard during my early childhood, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” My piece Just Right encapsulates a story of finding what is the best fit, or ‘just right’, for you, whether that be the right temperature for soup or the best job for you. The viewer can only reveal the story by using a UV flashlight, just like when adults read bedtime stories to their children in the comfort of a single light. My display then ends on the far right with Destiny, an artwork portraying who I strive to be in the future: a nurse. All the works in between hit upon a different part of my identity such as the role of my family and friends in building up my identity (Melting Pot), the effect of the society I grew up in on my identity (Mechanical Society), and the impact of my hometown on the growth of my identity (My Forever Home). Using a long wall assigned to me, I was able to layout the timeline of my life depicted by my artworks. I arranged my works in a semi-circle as this arrangement supports my idea of the 'whole, entire self.' In many cultures, the circle represents the “whole self.” Each artwork is a part of the whole display, just like each diverse part of my identity is a part of forming my whole self. I want the viewers to see the unity within my collection of artworks. Therefore, I strategically put alike artworks together. My two micrography pieces, Just Right and Behind the Scenes, were made with the same materials, invisible ink markers, so they are placed one above the other. This placement also is for practical reasons since a UV flashlight hangs beside the two works for the viewer to use to reveal the artworks. Then, my two mixed media works, Inner Self and Melting Pot are placed in the same vertical column. Next, my two pieces of similar size and circular shape, Mechanical Society and The Places You Go, are grouped together vertically as well. Lastly, in the center of all the works, the piece that represents the groundwork of my identity, hence it’s placement, is My Forever Home. Through this arrangement, it allows the viewer to more clearly see the connection among my individual works within the theme of identity. Although my works differ in style and media, they are united under one theme where the concept is more important than the completed work. For example, I used the micrography method of writing and invisible ink in Just Right and Behind the Scenes to emphasize the concept of revealing something important that contributed to forming my identity. Also, in Melting Pot my friends and families are represented as individual crayons melted together to form a bigger crayon that represents me. The artwork portrays the message that I am a product of my influences; my family and friends have formed me into who I am today. By focusing on the concepts behind my works, I was able to more symbolically represent my identity in various ways such as through crayons in Melting Pot or flowers in Inner Self. In Mechanical Society and The Places You Go I used the concept of unity and wholeness behind the circular shape. The circular shape helps to represent the societal norms within the whole world in Mechanical Society and the entire significance of my car within my life in The Places You Go. Through my artworks, I was able to successfully show the different internal and external sources that formed my present identity as a person. As I experimented with various concepts and media, I realized that these investigations helped me form my artistic identity 一 a conceptual artist. This exhibition is a visual encouragement for my audience to continue to discover their identity to become their whole selves.