The Element
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2021
Paci ic Ridge School
Jan Heinz | EPOXY 2 andy yu | 400 vignettes 2 kyan barker | split personalities 3 keenan walsh | every shade of grey rajan dube | Odyssey Book Cover Sophia Nguyen | I still feel like I don’t know you quentin deming | sea of illusions
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larsen enge | My world, our planet Tianne Chazin | Okay, Boomer Sebastian pierce | In the moment
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Kiera Nordan | Summer zach brown | steel fish Siena burlingame | A pretty lake
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Teagan Hall | Dew Drops 10 gabrielle biederman | dissolving latana 10 Scarlett Solomon | Breakfast 10 Teagan hall | Paisley 11 Chloe dinenNa | Dolce vita Siena Burlingame | Flowery meadow larsEn enge | moon
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valentina huynh | untitled tobias green | new noise KENNEDY Difiore | Creation of Balloon Animals
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owen beim | eyes to the sky Jonathan Bowen | Optical Illusion Colton clapham | cactus star
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Jack Dodson | Astonishing Armageddon SID israni | social media addiction grace qin | rose
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SHANYCE McCUllough | sushi 20 klara lau | afterglow 20 grace piscitello | make you feel so good 21 SIENA BURLINGAME | FLOWERS BY THE BEACH 22 Yo-jin Dittrich-tilton | Lion 22 Anna Birchler | The princess and her knight 23 Ethan Heck | Rendered image 24 LUKE BEDELL | GAMEBOY 24 Megan Whyley | Dolphin to Toothbrush Morphing 25 Lily fangman | The Fault in Our Stars 25
ScaRLett Streitman | Lights Up 26 NATHAN FRENCH | Dismantled 26 ISABELLA VARAHRAMYAN | WHAT IF 27 BENJAMIN HUBBARD | PLANTS 28 JAIDA MCCULLOUGH | METAL UP 28 ELLA BEAUCHAMP | TOMORROW’S INFINITY 29 Jack Dodson | Grand Canyon Bluebirds Sam Swiecki | Triangle tree vivian zhang | sunday traffic
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Anjali phadnis | Fugue en Fuego KAIa harriman | The Ranunculus Covetousness coriNne gardner | save our environment Julie wang | trapped in darkness
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Chloe Kim | Colors of Venice Katrina Fraher | Bloodlust Emily Salameh | Intersection of Shape
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Ame guenette | the tragedy of the commons Sahil dube | Chaotic neutral Sophia Nguyen | Healing involves going backwards
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Nicole Patton | Trapped Light Neelan Patel | The Beauty of Paper Derek Le | oh look a space ship
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Carlee Weber | Your(e) cute jeans wyatt elsner | self portrait Mykelle brainard | blurred lines
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Phoenix REID | DRAGON Fight CAYLA SOLOMON | MIXED MEDIA ORANGE Nick Sanford | Self Portrait Sophia NGuyEN | GATES to the sea
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aiden engels | country boy Lutianne Chazin | untitled artwork in a miror KRis nemalceff | Low Poly Art Wolf
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Quentin deming | Wonderland 42 bailey Scherdorf | yama 42 Sid israni | isolated swing 43
Kaia Harriman | The First Light 54 Yo-Jin Dittrich-Tilton | Campo San Boldo 54 Jenna Ferayorni | Spring 55
natasha threat | GOD’S BEAUTIFUL CREATION: THE MOUNTAINS 44 Elita yang | Broken panorama of heart surgery 45 Teagan hall | Eye see you 45
Laura Rikkers | Peril 56 brandon shen | Illama Inception 57 Derek le | fallen city 57
Ashay kalthia | blue space Yo-jin dittricH-tilton | campo san boldo abstraCtion Andy yu | To wield the stars
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Kai mencel | Bigger than the rest Bella Miller | Lonely Musicians
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Cole Pashkow | Frog 62 ETHAN HUNTINGTON | Origami Black Forest Cuckoo Clock 62 Sawyer marlow | The Eye 63 LAYLA NAZIF| euphonious 63 Elita Yang | tweety bird at a picnic? 64 Sophie Uchitel | Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure 64 charlotte reed | stages of a liMe 65 YO-JIN DITTRICH-TILTON | SKYLAB 65 clayton Garner | Hong Kong Mason Pashkow | A Normal Still Life William Kim | Maze Runner jAI SINGH | GREEN LIGHT AN ABSTRACTION
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Bryce Hamlet | Heaven 58 Thomas Benjamin | Portrait 58 YANZHAO WANG| LET’S REVEAL THE POTENTIAL 59 Satvik Saripalli | can’t think of a title 60 Annabelle Rivard | frond 61 Ame Guenette | OATMILK 61 GRACE BECK | In memory of jeff hansen
andy yu | 400 vignettes
Jan Heinz | EPOXY 2
kyan barker | split personalities
layla nazif | Curious Cluster 3
keenan walsh | every shade of grey
keenan walsh | galapagos finches
rajan dube | Odyssey Book Cover Redesign 4
I still feel like I don’t know you Sophia Nguyen
I used to go swimming in the ocean when i was young. there would be times when i’d take a step, and the seafloor would suddenly dip so low that i’d have to keep myself afloat; i was suddenly in the abyss with no forewarning. but then there were times when i thought i’d nearly drown, but when i took that step i found myself only ankle-deep. i don’t know which one i liked better, i still don’t.
quentin deming | sea of illusions 5
larsen enge | My world, our planet
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Sebastian pierce | In the moment Okay, Boomer Tianne Chazin
Your generation Did not build Your nation Because You do not appreciate The wars We fought We tried To help even though You’re too tired Of working
Instead You just leave us To be disappointed when We fought too hard for you To claim You have no rights (now read from the end to the beginning)
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Summer Kiera Nordan
The world didn’t stop for me It just took slower breaths I watched everything from a distance, blanketed in a muggy August embrace Familiar to the wind of fall a molasses moving breeze carried my dreams away as memories of red lipped sticky summers by the country club pool became more and more pronounced Like hands around a neck I suffocated as I watched you blossom from that ripe age of seven You bloomed as I withered away while dreams of Ivy League became your reality and slowly slipped through my fingers like dry sand If only the heat hadn’t crept up so quietly and slowly blocked out all sound besides the whirring fan maybe I would of caught up instead of laying atop the bed while the silence grew too loud and I grew far too old and far too behind
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Siena burlingame | A pretty lake
zach brown | steel fish 9
Teagan Hall | Dew Drops Scarlett Solomon | Breakfast
gabrielle biederman | dissolving latana 10
Teagan hall | Paisley 11
Chloe dineNna | Dolce vita
Siena Burlingame | Flowery meadow 12
larsEn enge | moon 13
valentina huynh | untitled
tobias green | new noise 14
KENNEDY Difiore | Creation of Balloon Animals 15
owen beim | eyes to the sky 16
Jonathan Bowen | Optical Illusion
Colton clapham | cactus star 17
SID israni | social media addiction
John Dodson | Astonishing Armageddon 18
grace qin | rose 19
klara lau | afterglow
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SHANYCE McCUllough | sushi
grace piscitello | make you feel so good
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SIENA BURLINGAME | FLOWERS BY THE BEACH
Yo-jin Dittrich-tilton | Lion 22
Anna Birchler | The princess and her knight 23
Ethan Heck | Rendered image
LUKE BEDELL | GAMEBOY 24
Megan Whyley | Dolphin to Toothbrush Morphing Project
Lily fangman | The Fault in Our Stars 25
ScaRLett Streitman | Lights Up
NATHAN FRENCH | Dismantled 26
ISABELLA VARAHRAMYAN | WHAT IF 27
BENJAMIN HUBBARD | PLANTS
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JAIDA MCCULLOUGH | METAL UP
ELLA BEAUCHAMP | TOMORROW’S INFINITY
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Jack Dodson | Grand Canyon Bluebirds
Sam Swiecki | Triangle tree 30
vivian zhang | sunday traffic
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Anjali phadnis | Fugue en Fuego
KAIa harriman | The Ranunculus Covetousness 32
coriNne gardner | save our environment
Julie wang | trapped in darkness
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Chloe Kim | Colors of Venice
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Katrina Fraher | Bloodlust
Emily Salameh | Intersection of Shape 35
Ame guenette | the tragedy of the commons
Sahil dube | Chaotic neutral 36
Healing involves going backwards Sophia Nguyen
Once upon a time I was a freshwater trout That longed to experience the abyss called the ocean, Hoping to find the consolation I needed To justify the depth of my heart, And the rigid scales I bore. So one day I swam out of my shallow little lake And into a stream That brought me to a river That lead me to the ocean. In the ocean i met many other creatures, Some with even tougher scales than me Some with no scales at all. They were all very kind, They told me stories of how they came to the ocean. Some came by stream and some came by river, Some even came from human tanks. But above all they congratulated me For having the courage to make it this far. I thanked them for their warm welcome And i really enjoyed the stay, But the current kept pulling me back to the river, Back to the stream, Back to my shallow little lake. I didn’t have enough fight in me to stay in that sea of recovery, But i’ll make it back one day. I promise.
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Nicole Patton | Trapped Light
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Derek Le | oh look a space ship
Neelan Patel | The Beauty of Paper 39
Phoenix REID | DRAGON Fight
CAYLA SOLOMON | MIXED MEDIA ORANGE 40
Sophia NguyEN | GATES to the sea
Nick Sanford | Self Portrait 41
Quentin deming | Wonderland
bailey Scherdorf | yama 42
Sid israni | isolated swing 43
natasha threat | GOD’S BEAUTIFUL CREATION: THE MOUNTAINS 44
Elita yang | Broken panorama of heart surgery
Teagan hall | Eye see you
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Ashay kalthia | blue space
Yo-jin dittricH-tilton | campo san boldo abstraCtion 46
Andy yu | To wield the stars 47
Kai mencel | Bigger than the rest 48
Bella Miller | Lonely Musicians 49
wyatt elsner | self portrait
Carlee Weber | Your(e) cute jeans 50
Mykelle brainard | blurred lines 51
aiden engels | country boy 52
Lutianne Chazin | untitled artwork in a miror
KRis nemalceff | Low Poly Art Wolf 53
Kaia Harriman | The First Light
Yo-Jin Dittrich-Tilton | Campo San Boldo 54
Jenna Ferayorni | Spring 55
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Laura Rikkers | Peril
brandon shen | Illama Inception
Derek le | fallen city 57
Bryce Hamlet | Heaven
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Thomas Benjamin | Portrait
YANZHAO WANG | LET’S REVEAL THE POTENTIAL 59
Satvik Saripalli | can’t think of a title 60
Annabelle Rivard | frond
Ame Guenette | OATMILK 61
Cole Pashkow | Frog
ETHAN HUNTINGTON | Origami Black Forest Cuckoo Clock 62
Sawyer marlow | The Eye
LAYLA NAZIF | euphonious 63
Elita Yang | tweety bird at a picnic?
Sophie Uchitel | Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure 64
YO-JIN DITTRICH-TILTON | SKYLAB
charlotte reed | stages of a liMe 65
clayton Garner | Hong Kong
Mason Pashkow | A Normal Still Life 66
William Kim | Maze Runner
jAI SINGH | GREEN LIGHT AN ABSTRACTION 67
Cover Art:
Soren Schillig | Brunch Down Under
This Page:
Shiva Kabra | Reflections
The 2021 Element Staff Hannah Tison Divya Rao Tianne Chazin Madison Willis Nico Bohrer Aidan DeLange Andrey Semechkin Bailey Scherdorf Ms. Schmidt
Thank you to everyone who submitted excellent work. We wish we could have included it all.
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