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Painting by Mia Huang from The Bishops School, California, USA Painting by Mia Huang from The Bishops School, California, USA

Painting by Sen Ming Hu from Eaglebrook School, Massachusetts, USA Painting by Sen Ming Hu from Eaglebrook School, Massachusetts, USA Artist Statement: My artwork explores the essence of peace through the profound interconnectedness between humanity and the natural world. Inspired by the visual language of traditional indigenous dot painting, the piece captures a serene twilight where three figures sit in quiet contemplation, gazing at a setting sun. Below the surface, an in

Written by Katherine Wu Seven Lakes High School, Texas, USA Humming low, a hymn of wings and buzzing bodies. Dungeness crabs scuttle like restless mourners in silent prayer. The mud smells of salt and something older, brine and decay braided together, an inheritance carried by tides. Grass stalks bow under the weight of wind, whispering secrets to the water. This place knows how to hold loss, how to fold it gently into sediment until grief becomes silt, soft enoug

Written by Angela Du from New York City, USA ocean— keeper of the unwanteds mother of salt swallowed light whole cities of coral bleached white— brittle as ribs current, i command you carry bottle caps; treat them as pearls. somewhere beneath the atlantic. metal rusts into the reef. iron hits my tongue. rain gathers pulling itself inland. the ocean keeps giving. & even now salt in our blood waves folding themselves. endlessly giving but we keep ta