The Element 2018-19

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The Element Pacific Ridge School

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20-21 Ethan Hungtinton | The Seed of Writing Mia McCarthy | Scale Mishaal Ijaz | Drops

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22-23 Connor Elmore | You’re looking at Me like I’m See Through Jaxon Elsner | The Creation of a New World Polly Ecke | Bolt Man

Sofie Webber | Hawaiian Waterfall Shannon McMahon | Butterfly Effect Megan Barajas | Snail In Motion

Tanisha McCullough| Metamorphisis III Dylan Oratz | California Dreamin’ Tianne Chazin | Color Me Impressed 6-7 Polly Ecke | Flower Bulb Lucas Stremba | Above the City Caitlin McGuire | Transcendent Travelers Julie Wang | Egg Evan Andrus | Melono Slice 8-9 Grace Smidt | Fuzz Connor Elmore | Roll the Dice Howie Li | Playing With Sight 10-11 Vansh Gupta | Abstract Fork Megan Barajas | Purple Hills Tori Farris | Hold Back the Truth/Self Sabotage 12-13 Devin Park | Visual Optimism Myles Baker | Global Warming Lana Walters | Painted Lady 14-15 Claire Ramsay | Soy Wonderful Sydney Schmitter | Fish Soren Schillig | Dock 16-17 Ethan Huntington | Pizza Topography Mckayla Proulx | Speed Jaxon Elsner | Stretching Reality

24-25 Sid Israni | The “Streets” of Venice Megan Martindale | The Met 26-27 Quentin Deming | Alternate Reality Mia McCarthy | Cookies N’ Cream Skylar Enge | Friends 28-29 Grace Sandel | Cat Skylar Enge | Almond Milk AD Soren Engstrom | In the Thicket 30-31 Katie Brown | Metamorphasis Mckayla Proulx | Pier Dylan Murphy | Isolated Ashley Zhuge | “?”

32-33 Tanisha McCullough | Take a Dive Ariana White | Step Up William Schneider | Reflection 34-35 Idaly Gandara | Cotton Like Candy Shannon McMahon | Butterfly Effect Corinne Gardner | Red Panda

18-19 Sophia Cofinas | Wild Smita Varma | Budda’s Path Paula Contreas | Untitled

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54-55 Brady Burman | Foam Andy Yu | 3000 Years of War Elita Yang | Elizabeth Taylor

36-37 Howie Li | Puppeteering Claire Ramsay | Rising 38-39 Owen Beim | Sunset Streaks Krishnalei So’oto | Floating Space Grace Smidt | gLitCH

56-57 Mia Linson | Best Friends Summer Heutel | Honeybee Haven Flower Tess Kelly | Echo

40-41 Gace Sandal | Caterpillars Soren Schilling | Roundup Sophia Mickelson | Chrome

58-59 Keenan Walsh | Into Another World Megan Barajas | Seahorses Owen Beim | The Dream

42-43 Tori Farris | Potential Energy Brooke Rogers | Untitled Brooke Rogers | Giraffe-Bot Jack Benjamin | Hashtag

60-61 Grace Piscitello | Visions of Peace Megan Martindale | Reflection 62-63 Jack Benjamin | Cudi Concert Poster Alix Maung | Untitled Miles Goodson | My Metal Robot

44-45 Keenan Walsh | Rays into the Grain Sid Israni | Antelope Canyon Shannon McMahon | Through the Looking Glass

64-65 Claire Ramsay | Space Polly Ecke | Orange Tomatoes Ethan Huntington | Cream

46-47 Idaly Gandara | Spit Arielle Sanford | BMW Henry Goodson | Dronvaardia

66-67 Mia McCarthy | Tread Lightly Derek Le | Dimensions and Webs Elyssa Agresti | Golden Droplets

48-49 Julian Stern | Street Theater (Act II) Sophia Mickelson | Film Still: UR Goeffrey Xu | Incognito Mode

68-69 Mykelle Brainard | Through the Looking Glass Ariana White | Mirrir Mirror Neeka Majidishad | Through a Child’s Eyes

50-51 Clayton Garner | Self Portrait Fynn Turner | Tac O’Cat Katie Brick | Cayman Critter

70-71 Mandy Nadir | For the Light Howie Li | Inspired

52-53 Megan Martindale | Water Laura Rikkers | Out of This World Krishnalei So’oto | Fallen Stream

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Sofie Webber | Hawaiian Waterfall

Shannon McMahon | Butterfly Effect

Megan Barajas |Snail in Motion

Tanisha McCullough | Metamorphosis III

,Dylan Oratz | California Dreamin’

Tianne Chazin | Color Me Impressed

Polly Ecke | Flower Bulb

Lucas Stremba | Above The City

Caitlin McGuire | Transcendent Travelers

Julie Wang | Egg

Evan Andrus |Melono Slice

Grace Smidt | Fuzz

Connor Elmore | Roll the Dice

Howie Li | Playing with Sight

Vansh Gupta | Abstract Fork

Megan Barajas | Purple Hills

Hold Back the Self Truth/Self Sabatoge by: Tori Farris When the words come to the tip of my tongue They taste bitter like the cigarettes that blacken my lungs Two puffs of smoke to evade the truth My thoughts are a cancer when combined with proof So open my mouth and unbind my breast Shake the weight from my shoulders, head, and chest.

Slice from my stomach to my burning throat; My own entrails strangling me until I choke.

Mind against body but my mind is blank My body takes over and my bones start to break Vertebrae bending until paralyzation Everything twisted to a new realization.

Fall to the ground with a broken mirror Trying to cry out is anyone here?

Pieces of glass reflect back a stranger Unknown eyes now realize I am the danger

Devin Park | Visual Optimism

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Myles Baker | Global Warming

Lana Walters | Painted Lady

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Claire Ramsay | Soy Wonderful

Sydney Schmitter | Fish

Soren Schilling | Dock

Ethan Huntington | Pizza Topography

McKayla Proulx | Speed

Jaxon Elsner | Stretching Reality

Sophia Cofinas | Wild

Smita Varma | Buddha’s Path

Paula Contreras | Untitled

The Seed of Writing

by Ethan Huntington A single idea.

A single seed.

Buried deep within the depths Of the soil, Struggling to fracture, Then burst through its outer shell.

Your pencil hits the paper, As a seedling emerges, Burgeoning from the earth, Like a space shuttle taking to the skies.

The roots and trunk soon take shape, Your hand now wandering on its own, Flying, soaring, and gliding Across the pages.

Exultantly, you conclude The closing paragraph As a sense of relief and jubilation Flush through your body, A sloppy grin, Plastered onto your face.

A single seed, a grandiose tree.

A single idea, a prodigious story.

Mia McCarthy | Scale

Mishaal Ijaz | Drops

Connor Elmore | You’re Looking at Me Like I’m See Through

Jaxon Elsner | The Creation of a New World

Polly Ecke | Bolt Man

Sid Israni | The “Streets” of Venice

Megan Martindale | The Met

Quentin Deming | Alternate Reality

Mia McCarthy | Cookies N’ Cream

Skylar Enge | Friends

Grace Sandel | Cat

ALMOND

MILK

from nature

Skylar Enge | Almond Milk AD

Soren Engstrom | In The Thicket

Katie Brown | Metamorphosis

McKayla Proulx | Pier

Dylan Murphy | Isolated

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Ashley Zhuge | “?”

Tanisha McCullough | Take a Dive

Ariana White | Step Up

William Schneider | Reflection

Idaly Gandara | Cotton Like Candy

Shannon McManon | Butterfly Effect

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Corinne Gardner | Red Panda

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Howie Li | Puppeteering

Claire Ramsay | Rising

Owen Beim | Sunset Streaks

Krishnalei So’oto | Floating Space

Grace Smidt | gLitCH

Grace Sandel | Caterpillars

Soren Schilling | Roundup

Sophia Mickelson | Chrome

Potential Energy

by Tori Farris It keeps my heart beating to pump blood through my veins It makes images in my head and puts them into frames Bursting at the seams, like my heart is for you So much potential energy I don’t know what to do.

Do I take the action I so desperately need?

Or patiently wait until you come, fully freed?

Rid yourself of your demons, burn some sage to cleanse Let those bad spirits free you from a corrupted lens.

All my potential energy is pushing me towards you It is inevitable that I will continue to pursue What I believe will and can become something great If you only left those sorrowful ghosts in the rain.

Brooke Rogers | Untitled

Brooke Rogers | Giraffe-Bot

Jack Benjamin | Hashtag

Keenan Walsh | Rays Into the Grain

Sid Israni | Antelope Canyon

Shannon McMahon | Through the Looking Glass

Idaly Gandara | Split

Arielle Sanford | BMW

Dronvaardia by: Henry Goodson

Jason flipped, catching the puck in one smooth motion. The heavy wooden puck, about the

circumference of a grapefruit, was etched with beautiful vinelike designs. This one, as the puck for the national Wellflight championships, was impeccably crafted. The game was West United, Jason’s team, versus the ever-intimidating Legion. Jason couldn’t worry about that now, though; he had two enemy strikers flying up to meet him.

Wellflight, the national sport of Dronvaardia, was played in the air, as the competitors possessed

batlike wings. It was a rare gift, but it was celebrated and honored across the land. Held in a different stadium each game, one thing remained constant; each team had to protect a well, which the other

team would try to sink the puck into to score. After a team scored, the puck would shoot out of the

“cannon”, a similarly shaped hole in the middle of the field. Today, the Wellflight game was staged on the side of a cliff, and the field was rotated a full 90 degrees from the usual. There was an enormous

stadium with tens of thousands of spectators, and green plains stretched out in all directions past that.

Jason had just caught the puck straight from the cannon, and he had sights on the enemy

well. Thirty seconds were left on the clock, and the game was tied 8-8. He would need to dodge the two strikers coming at him from underneath, and then get past their wellkeeper to score. His two

teammates were lagging behind, and the strikers were going to reach him any moment. Jason turned 180 degrees, throwing the puck at his West United Teammate Georgio, 40 feet above him.

Wham! Jason impacted one of the confused strikers, and they both started plummeting, trying

to right themselves. Meanwhile, the second striker was racing towards Georgio, and he was gaining.

Giorgio was 20 feet away from the well when the striker and the wellkeeper simultaneously reached him. The striker checked him, almost knocking the puck from his hands. The keeper used this as an

opportunity to pluck it away and make a break for the well. 15 seconds and the game would reset and go into overtime, but if the Legion keeper scored before then, the game was lost!

Jason untangled himself from his opponent at last and raced for the keeper. The keeper’s main

job was to guard his own well, so he wasn’t the fastest team member, but he was only 10 feet from the well, rendering Jason’s chase a futile effort. As the Legion keeper whipped the puck sideways towards the well embedded in the dark granite cliff, the countless spectators were counting the last 5 seconds

of the game. The puck flew, wobbling slightly, and as the stadium reached “One!” and Georgio cursed in his thick Italian accent, the puck sunk into the well flawlessly. That was the game; Legion 9, West

United 8. Jason’s heart sank as he saw the championship flying away from him like a puck towards a well. This feeling though, was the opposite.

Julian Stern | Street Theater (Act II)

Sophia Mickelson | Film Still: UR

Geoffrey Xu | Incognito Mode

Clayton Garner | Self Portait

Fynn Turner | Tac O’Cat

Katie Brick | Cayman Critter

Megan Martindale | Water

Laura Rikkers | Out of this World

Krishnalei So’oto| Fallen Stream

Braden Burman | Foam

3,000 Years of War

Every conflict with over 100,000 deaths from 1000 B.C.E. - 2000 A.D. relative to the world population at the time.

1000 BCE - 450 CE 451 CE - 1300 CE 1301 CE - 1600 CE 1601 CE - 1800 CE 1801 CE - 1900 CE 1901 CE - 1950 CE 1951 CE - 2000 CE

Mongol Conquests (1206 C.E. - 1405 C.E.): ~8.89% of the world population

The size of the circle indicates number of casulties as a percentage of the world population at the time.

Three Kingdoms Period (220 C.E.-280 C.E.): ~10.76% of the world population

Second World War (1939 C.E.-1945 C.E.): ~2.52% of the world population

American Civil War (1861 C.E. - 1865 C.E.): ~0.07% of world population

An Lushan Rebellion (755 C.E. - 763 C.E.): ~8.99% of world population

Conquests of Tamerlane (1370 C.E. - 1405 C.E.): ~3.24% of world population

Death Toll by Conflict

Death Toll of Major Wars by Era Roughly equivalent to the population of Indonesia: 264,000,000

1000 B.C.E. - 450 C.E. 451 C.E. - 1300 C.E. 1301 C.E. - 1600 C.E. 1601 C.E. - 1800 C.E. 1801 C.E. - 1900 C.E. 1901 C.E. - 1950 C.E.

264,824,137 Total Deaths from Large Conflicts

1951 C.E. - 2000 C.E.

10 wars were responsible for

World War II

over 70%

of all deaths from major conflicts

Other Conflicts

Napoleonic Wars Moorish Wars Reconquista

Mongol Conquests

30 Years' War Conquests of Tamerlane

1. http://brecke.inta.gatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/09/Conflict-Catalog-18-vars.xlsx 2. https://ourworldindata.org/85e527da-c3bd-41f2-be4d-7e60b7cab48c

Andy Yu | 3000 Years of War

Three Kingdoms

World War I

An Lushan Rebellion

Elita Yang | Elizabeth Taylor

Mia Linson | Best Friends

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Summer Heutel | Honeybee Haven Flower

Tess Kelly | Echo

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Keenan Walsh | Into Another World

Megan Barajas | Seahorses

Owen Beim | The Dream

Grace Piscitello | Visions Of Peace

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Megan Martindale | Reflection

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Jack Benjamin | Cudi Contest Poster

Alix Maung | Untitled

Miles Goodson | My Metal Robot

Claire Ramsay | Space

Polly Ecke | Orange Tomatoes

Ethan Huntington | Cream

Mia McCarthy | Tread Lightly

Derek Le | Dimentions and Webs

Elyssa Agresti | Golden Droplets

MyKelle Brainard | Through the Looking Glass

Ariana White | Mirror Mirror

Neeka Majidishad | Through a Child’s Eyes

Mandy Nadir | For the Light

Howie Li | Inspired