Authors Statement - Ethan Chun

I incorporated repetition and metaphors into my vignette “The Photobook”. For example, “the room is as quiet as a mouse” is a metaphor (Chun). This is a form of metaphor because it makes a comparison between “the room” and “quiet as a mouse”. “I remember not wanting to leave my mom. I remember being very scared, but eventually coming out of my shell and making new friends. I remember the floods of emotions that I had as I was dropped off into the class” (Chun). This is an example of repetition because “I remember” repeats three times. In “The Pool”, I incorporated personification and imagery. “Swallowed by the Abyss” is an example of imagery (Chun). This gives a description of the pool (I described the pool as an “abyss”). I describe how deep the pool felt to me, and how fast I sunk into the pool. “The days flew by in my friend's pool” (Chun). This is an example of personification because “days” don’t actually fly. It’s applying actions to inanimate objects.

For the artwork I did for ”Legacy", I was inspired by Pōhaku and how he made a connection to Atlas, who in Greek mythology, holds up the world. However, in my artwork, the person is holding up a rock instead of the world because Pōhaku means stone in Hawaiian. Also, in “Legacy", there are many connections between mountains and rocks. I also colored the person's arms blue, to symbolize the sky, the person's head, and chest area green to symbolize the mountains, and the person's legs/lower body brown to symbolize the earth/ground. These colors were used because there are again, many connections to Hawaiian culture, which revolves around nurturing the Earth. Also, Pohaku’s writes "It is unbroken and enduring. My name is the rock that has founded cities, and destroyed them", which is why I drew the person resembling the earth, which has endured many hardships. Also, the person is holding up a giant rock and is "enduring" the struggle.

For the artwork I did for ”Dadu", I was inspired by the knowledge and prestigiousness of the Indian brahmins as well as Liam's grandfather. The books symbolize the objects that Liam gained from his grandfather, who gave him his middle name, as well as the knowledge that Liam's gained through his grandfather.