$6,000 Grand Prize 2024, Grade 11
- Rachel Han
- Visions of Light, 2024
- Pastel, charcoal on paper.
- 12 x 16 in
Teacher: Jennifer Bitter
School: Newport High School, Bellevue, WA, US
Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "I wanted to incorporate Baer’s primary method of discovery, focused on the principle of patience and perseverance, which was through careful observation of natural phenomena around him…I attempted to depict this method through the action…of him peering into his flask, as well as the pattern that was developed in the background to not only represent his profound work in embryology, but also his methods of observation."
Read the artist's Impact Statement.
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