2021 Reflections winning film entries

Acceptance - Usually when people get asked the question, "What is one thing you would wish for the world?" They answer with world peace, stopping climate change or world hunger. However, when I was asked this question, only one thing came to mind - acceptance. The way we change the world is to stop treating people who are different from ourselves as outcasts. We treat them as people - crazy I know - I dream that we live in a world where our similarities bring us together and our differences don't drive us apart but makes us stronger. 

 Rocky Balance - I will change the world by keeping society in balance (equality). I'll lift people up from rock bottom. I'll include each rock (person) I find no matter how big or small, young or old, tall or short. One by one in a sea of rocks, I'll provide stability even if some need more than others. If they need a friend, I'll be that friend, if they need some support, I'll be their support. I captured a photo of a diversified stack of rocks to show we are all different, but when treated as equals, we can accomplish the same task. 

Photo 3 - I will change the world by making a stranger smile. My work is a picture of a beautiful barista who would always make me smile. When I would smile, she would smile with me. Her smile is so beautiful and genuine. I realized not many people smile. She inspired me to be the reason people smile and spread the random acts of kindness she gave to me. It made me wonder, what if I can inspire someone to be nice today?  I loved that idea and I've been trying to be that barista in hope it would make someone's day. Just like I'm changing the world. I truly believe that like this, the world would be so much more beautiful. 

Simple Gifts 

Matthew 7:24

An Inch at a Time

S.T.O.P. VA 6 - I chose to make visual art. I decided to make a picture of the planet using trash. I collected this trash on the beach right by my house, Waimanalo Beach. This has to do with how I'll change the world, which is by picking up trash when I see it, and creating less trash. I used the trash to create our planet as that’s one of the main things plastic pollution is hurting. I added the word “STOP” in plastic, which I turned into an acronym, “Stop Torturing Our Planet ''. I placed my art on a piece of cardboard from an old amazon box to help it tie into the “recycled trash” theme of my piece. My art relates to the “I will change the world by..”theme because it shows how I took plastic pollution and not only picked it up, but made art out of it instead of throwing it away. Picking up and recycling plastic pollution helps change the world for the better, because the less plastic pollution, the healthier our planet will become.  It relates to biology because plastic pollution directly affects living organisms, and the behavior of cells. 

 A Moment in Peace - I will change the world by bringing harmony to the world, a balance between humans, animals, and nature so we may all co-exist in peace. 

Accompany - I will change the world by merging orphanages and nursing homes, because children in orphanages have lost love since childhood, and the elderly in nursing homes are lonely because their children are not around. My painting is a simple building with a sense of design, and it is also a combination fo an orphanage and nursing home in my imagination 

Spread the Art 

Relationship between Man & Nature

I will Change the World by Walking to School