$1,000 Spotlight Award 2024, Grade 6
- Benjamin Gu
- Finding links from tracks, 2024
- Watercolor, pen on paper.
- 21.5 x 15.5 in
Teacher: Mona Jin
School: Kerrisdale Elementary School, Vancouver, Canada
Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "In my drawing, we see Cecilia looking through the telescope in the olden days. She will discover the truth about the stars, and our sun. Above Cecilia is a spectroscope; an object with the power of allowing you to see the different colors in a light source. It is based on the interaction between light and matter…Artists make things that don’t exist, and scientists find what we don’t know."
Read the artist's Impact Statement.
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