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by Chloe Im

Rumsey Hall School

stacked rubics

Human beings are not born perfect. From the moment they first step into the world, they instinctively feel they should be taken after, educated, gradually learn how to cooperate with others to achieve harmonious life. Whatever they try out initially, they might face difficulty and failure and feel depressed about why their lives are not perfect like a well-aligned cube from the beginning. They might fall into a moment of despair, wondering why they can't get along well with their friends and why they all the time lag behind others at school. However, that's the nature of life, which does not go smoothly from the beginning, like a well-aligned cube. Instead, life all the time requires our patience and long waiting for the proper timing to acquire what we want. Therefore, if we go step by step toward our dream without giving up, we would see our vision and goal realized, which is quite similar to solving a cube puzzle.

Through my artwork, I would like to represent the intrinsic nature of life by comparing it to three cubes because the process of solving a cube puzzle is similar to the way we make headway toward our goal. The bottom cube, described as jumbled and not aligned in my artwork, has one side aligned as it goes up, and all sides are perfectly aligned at the top of the painting.

However, the size of the most aligned cube is painted smallest to symbolize the message of humans' exhausting and arduous journey to success rather than happiness at the moment of success.

The most crucial factor in solving a cube puzzle is wisdom and persistence, prerequisites to humans' success. Through the differently aligned cubes, I wanted to show how to adapt to new challenges and solve problems in my life step by step. To maximize the message, I tried to express the process of matching the cubes as much as possible with a bright and shiny feeling with the background dark and straightforward.