The Power of Purpose

Heroine with a burning heart

I'm continuing to make purposeful art wanting to paint images of powerful girls who light their own trajectory in space. In this piece, a girl picks up her pencil aimed create her next idea. Her heart is passionate and filled with potential, and her mind is the infinite universe.

It hasn’t been easy this week, and have been feeling distracted. I’m thankful that I can channel my artistic abilities and my energy for good things, like designing the Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Geosciences logo and being a part of the steering committee.

In the logo, I represent as many different fields of earth & planetary sciences as I could. The four sections of the logo spell out AAPI.

Challenging myself to redraw a scene from My Neighbor Totoro in the style of Princess Kaguya, both #StudioGhibli movies. This was kinda hard though...

“Committing to Anti-Racism and Inclusion in the Brooke Owens Fellowship”

My fellow @brookeowensfellowship Brookies and I made an alumnae statement on anti-racism (before my Executive Team role). As alumnae volunteers we help shape the program, and so it’s up to us to open the door in the industry and then help the Brookies who step through feel like they belong. Read the blog post at https://brookeowensfellowship.org/blog

I made this image for the post. Three people stand in protest in front of the smoke trails of a rocket launch. The color palette is taken from colors at dawn, signifying the dawn of a new normal.

A drawing collaboration of Marie Tharp, an iconic geologist and woman in STEM, whose 100th birthday was this past week! Check out Columbia Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory for some more info on her accomplishments.

“Working at a time when female scientists set off reflex skepticism, Tharp drafted the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor, which led to the acceptance of the once-mocked, now fundamental theory of continental drift. Not bad for someone whose discoveries were initially dismissed as “girl talk.”” -Michael Washburn for the NY Times(x)