Title: Trapped
Year: 2013
Medium: Mixed (cloth, ceramic modeling clay, mirror)
Size: 25x25x30 cm
An eagle being grasped by a hand. Once more, I was tempted to sublimate my emotions but this time I chose a more thoughtful form. Because my previous piece couldn't describe as much to the audience as I wanted, I decided to use symbols. The eagle symbolizes freedom and myself while the white hand symbolized the society. Also, the visible veins shows anger and hatred. The mirror helps to view the hidden side of the sculpture and allows every spectator to see himself in this piece. After all, we all are controlled by the someone's hands.
Year: 2013
Medium: Mixed (cloth, ceramic modeling clay, mirror)
Size: 25x25x30 cm
An eagle being grasped by a hand. Once more, I was tempted to sublimate my emotions but this time I chose a more thoughtful form. Because my previous piece couldn't describe as much to the audience as I wanted, I decided to use symbols. The eagle symbolizes freedom and myself while the white hand symbolized the society. Also, the visible veins shows anger and hatred. The mirror helps to view the hidden side of the sculpture and allows every spectator to see himself in this piece. After all, we all are controlled by the someone's hands.
Title: Dynamics of Life
Year: 2013
Medium: Mix
Size: 80x80 cm
Even though an eagle is a symbol of the free USA, an eagle has many different dimensions and its unique personality. This piece points out that although symbols and labels are useful tools in communication, we cannot forget that creatures change their behavior depending on their interaction with the environment and their mood, health and overall condition. An eagle can behave differently when the sun rises and when it sets. It can love and it can hate, it can be even curious. In the same way, people are complex and cannot be reduced to certain characteristics because the life is so dynamic and everything changes every second.
Year: 2013
Medium: Mix
Size: 80x80 cm
Even though an eagle is a symbol of the free USA, an eagle has many different dimensions and its unique personality. This piece points out that although symbols and labels are useful tools in communication, we cannot forget that creatures change their behavior depending on their interaction with the environment and their mood, health and overall condition. An eagle can behave differently when the sun rises and when it sets. It can love and it can hate, it can be even curious. In the same way, people are complex and cannot be reduced to certain characteristics because the life is so dynamic and everything changes every second.
Title: Glassed in Paradigms
Year: 2012
Medium: Mixed (oil pastel, cloth, acrylic, water color)
Size: 60x100 cm
This is a reaction to my Theory of Knowledge lesson about paradigms. It made such a huge impact on me so I had to express my concern in a piece of art. What if we saw it differently? What would the world be like? Aren't we trapped in out own perception? Why does the light belong above the dark? Is it because the light always shines from above? Why is classical dance considered more sophisticated than spontaneous African dance? What is the ideal of beauty?
Year: 2012
Medium: Mixed (oil pastel, cloth, acrylic, water color)
Size: 60x100 cm
This is a reaction to my Theory of Knowledge lesson about paradigms. It made such a huge impact on me so I had to express my concern in a piece of art. What if we saw it differently? What would the world be like? Aren't we trapped in out own perception? Why does the light belong above the dark? Is it because the light always shines from above? Why is classical dance considered more sophisticated than spontaneous African dance? What is the ideal of beauty?
A GYLC performance directed by me. We only had about an hour to practice :)
Summer 2013
Title: We Real Cool
Year: 2013
Medium: acrylic paint, airbrush
Year: 2013
Medium: acrylic paint, airbrush
Size: 130x50 cm
This piece reflects the opposing viewpoints on education and my internal struggle to decide what education should look like, whether it is necessary and how it actually influences our society. Does education offer possibilities to expand ones potential or does it rather hinder human natural development? This idea crosses my mind every day. I chose to depict this group of boys from my school who appear very unrestrained to me. I would expect them to care more about parties, girls, sports and games but when I got to know them they turned out to be duteous IB students. I think that education suppressed their wildness and showed them or restrained their path. I think they lost their youth by submission to formal life and also from what they said, they only studied to ensure their diploma. They believed that after two yeas of IB misery, they'd be released. So what is the point of education? Wouldn't they become much more beautiful beings if they could do what they desired?
This piece reflects the opposing viewpoints on education and my internal struggle to decide what education should look like, whether it is necessary and how it actually influences our society. Does education offer possibilities to expand ones potential or does it rather hinder human natural development? This idea crosses my mind every day. I chose to depict this group of boys from my school who appear very unrestrained to me. I would expect them to care more about parties, girls, sports and games but when I got to know them they turned out to be duteous IB students. I think that education suppressed their wildness and showed them or restrained their path. I think they lost their youth by submission to formal life and also from what they said, they only studied to ensure their diploma. They believed that after two yeas of IB misery, they'd be released. So what is the point of education? Wouldn't they become much more beautiful beings if they could do what they desired?
Title: Suppression
Year: 2012
Medium: Mixed
Size: 70x55 cm
Extremely spontaneous relief of instantaneous emotions. I was really angry because the IB art criteria restricted my freedom to express what I wanted and I felt that such rational criteria shouldn't be applied in art. I grabbed all available materials from the art room and created the body of the piece in one hour. I felt exactly like the piece of cloth in the middle. The feelings are indescribable by words.
Year: 2012
Medium: Mixed
Size: 70x55 cm
Extremely spontaneous relief of instantaneous emotions. I was really angry because the IB art criteria restricted my freedom to express what I wanted and I felt that such rational criteria shouldn't be applied in art. I grabbed all available materials from the art room and created the body of the piece in one hour. I felt exactly like the piece of cloth in the middle. The feelings are indescribable by words.
Title: The Life of the Lifeless
Year: 2013
Medium: charcoal
Size: 60x40 cm
Selection of Vietnamese cultural items and a play with lights and reflections to prove that objects do live, at least in art. I was asking myself this essential question: When we paint people or objects, do the objects become alive on the canvas and do people then become less alive? If everything depends on our imagination, can't objects live in real life as well?
Year: 2013
Medium: charcoal
Size: 60x40 cm
Selection of Vietnamese cultural items and a play with lights and reflections to prove that objects do live, at least in art. I was asking myself this essential question: When we paint people or objects, do the objects become alive on the canvas and do people then become less alive? If everything depends on our imagination, can't objects live in real life as well?
A digital story for my English 10 class. My English has improved since then but my thoughts never changed.
"A magical interconnection exists between our thoughts and our actions; each will determine the other. I found an activity that orbits around this vicious circle and reflects all fragments of myself. I love to paint. I paint with every single part of my body, with colors, sometimes with words. The object of my art are emotions, the incomprehensible yet powerful free agents who speak in codes. Thanks to my body I managed to decode many secrets. For this performance, I decided to set myself free and reposed all confidence in my expressive body; I improvised. My strong connection to my culture was revealed to me."
Title: Visitor at Home
Year: 2012
Medium: acrylic
Size: 60x90 cm
Year: 2012
Medium: acrylic
Size: 60x90 cm
A scene from a Vietnamese art shop with a view into the street. The street is a true living spirit of Vietnam while the tourist is looking at symbolic paintings that are to some extent valuable reflections of the culture but are not as precious as the present moment he should be enjoying. I let the artist paint an abstract piece because I wish he would also express his personal perception of the culture, not only produced copies of photographs. I've lived in the Czech Republic my whole life, I could never experience what it is like to wear a traditional white dress to school and enjoy the beauty and wisdom of Vietnamese literature as the girl in the corner does. The main figure in the middle, the tourist raises a question whether I myself am a tourist when I visit my homeland or whether I do understand my culture better than an onlooker because I was raised in a Vietnamese family and subconsciously adopted cultural norms. This piece expresses my longing for home and identity.
A group performance for the festival Colourful Planet in my hometown. 2013
This is an old performance from the time when I used to do rhythmic gymnastics. Unfortunately, we didn't use to have iPads or iPhones to videotape all performances. This is one of the few I could find.
2009 or 2010 ( I can't remember)
A performance by me and my dance crew from Hladik Dance Center in Prague.
Summer 2013
Title: Home
Year: 2013
Medium: Wall paint
Size: 400x250 cm
I painted this wall during a one-week-long stay in a center for disabled people in Ba Vi, Vietnam. I visited this center with my classmates, we donated money that we raised and assisted with some construction there. I painted this wall as a symbol of hope. I wanted the people there to remember that there is someone who care about them. The blue figures are us.
Year: 2013
Medium: Wall paint
Size: 400x250 cm
I painted this wall during a one-week-long stay in a center for disabled people in Ba Vi, Vietnam. I visited this center with my classmates, we donated money that we raised and assisted with some construction there. I painted this wall as a symbol of hope. I wanted the people there to remember that there is someone who care about them. The blue figures are us.
A short documentary about our charitable trip to Vietnam in February 2013
Journal pages for IB Art
Phu Quoc - Vietnam 2012
Painting my dream... (summer 2012)
School trip Farm2Table (September 2013)
USA ( Summer 2013)
National Championship - Team Competition 2009
