Authors Statement:

My two vignettes used a lot of my personal experiences, for example in my first vignette “Home” I wrote about what emotions I felt when I moved out of my childhood home(Leong, Home). I added imagery to that piece so it is easier for the readers to imagine what the home looked like. For example, “I had woken up to my mellow yellow walls and my bright posters everyday for the past 14 years” (Leong, Home). In my second vignette “I choose now” I wrote about how disconnected I felt from my culture and the betrayal I felt while wearing the bracelet. This piece allowed me to write in a different writing style than I am used to and I was able to pour any confusion in my head about my jade bracelet into this vignette. I used repetition in this piece to accentuate a thought, for example, “ I can choose when I learn more about my bracelet's significance and more about my culture. I choose now”. The use of “I choose” helped to signify the turning point in the piece(Leong, I Choose Now).

My two artworks represented the two vignettes I chose. I chose to make artwork for Lola and Tiana’s vignette. Lola’s first vignette was about her experience when she broke her arm and the story of how it happened. I drew an x-ray of a broken bone to show what her x-ray looked like when she broke her arm. I titled that artwork “Broken” because I drew the z-ray of a broken bone and after her stunt her arm was left broken. Tiana's vignette was about the ticking clock while she was paddling. I drew a paddle to signify her paddling and a clock on top to show that she was on the clock and had the pressure to beat the other team in the race. I titled that piece “Tik Tok” because she had to paddle hard and fast because she wanted to beat the other team and to do that, they had to go faster than the other team. That therefore took time as the ticking clock determined their fate.

- Caris