We all have thoughts and ideas about how things are and how they should be. Here\'s to describe what\'s in my mind about what\'s seen and said.

1. Creations by: Christopher Fornesa
Class of 2012 at L.V. Hightower High
School

2. Light always shines where you can catch it, you
just need to look ahead!

3. The little cracks in our lives may immerse us in a manner that
our whole purpose is to fix these mistakes, clouding us of
what really matters and what we really want to do in our lives.
It is important for us to, despite our mistakes, keep a sense of
humanity in our lives. Mistakes are what they
are, mistakes, so we should never make the mistake of
creating more while fixing the former.

4. Though created with pens and pencils, this piece shows
the true meaning of life, to live life itself, to thrive in
our endeavors, and to prosper from our actions.

5. Though just another abstract piece, this work represents the
altered scope of our emotions and in turn, our lives. Though
we have our own morals, standards, etc., we allow foreign
influences to change what we believe in and who we are.

6. Supernovas have always been a wonder to me, how could such
peaceful stars quickly become gargantuan monsters such as
these? With the inspiration of these universal nuisances and a
somewhat developed ability to draw with both hands, I created
this piece in order to account for the disorder in our lives. Life,
in general, is like a supernova, you can never be sure what to
expect and you sure can’t depend on what you’ll get sucked in
to.

7. “The heartless monster” was an experience-inspired poem that I had
recently written in order to show my frustrations. The purpose of the
drawing itself is to aid in the understanding of the poem, as a visual
representation of what the poem, itself, means. To me, it is a symbol
of my insecurities and my daily battles with them. Though I know that
it’s best to “shrug” them off, when you receive constant reminders that
you’re different, you will feel insecure in some manner until you finally
accept that being different IS, in fact, a good thing.

8. The mind is a beautiful thing, but
tribulation, unfortunately, affects in in a negative manner. As
a result, you will feel pain, despair, anger, and even
depression! After the fight, though, you realize that what
you’ve gone through was good for you, that life will get better
for you and as a result, you can share this advice with others
who have to go through these unexpected and unstoppable
factions of life.

9. The mind is a creative and complicated concept, one that makes us
wonder, how does it work, feel, and view the way it does? How is the mind
a faction of our soul and why does it have to be connected to our bodies?
Though we want to ask these questions, there is no definite answer and in
fact, I believe that the mind honestly is just a part of our lives which we have
to contemplate with and accommodate. Our minds, simply, are what makes
the divide between the living and the inanimate and allows us to either care
or careless. The warp in our minds is amazing, colorful, even creative, but
the real goal should be how you can control it and use it to your advantage
and improve your life and the lives of those you care about.

10. Peace, love, and hope; things which we all, somewhere in our lives, want but
also things which, in reality, are hard to come by. In society, idealism is
often scoffed at, even negated, but if only our leaders and our minds would
open up to the fact that there can be “happiness” for everyone. The only
problems in the world are caused by ourselves, if someone has a
problem, they will, most likely, push it on someone else who will then, have
problems of their own. Life is a cycle, if only we could live simply, be
considerate and show love to others, set aside our differences, and stay
hopeful when times are tough.

11. The twisted galaxy is parallel to our twisted society. In the twisted
galaxy, everything has a purpose, but nothing is definite about its role
and thus, everything is caught in the trap of entropy. In a world of
entropy, everything is disorder and no matter how much you or anyone
else wants to achieve order nothing is certain, and thus, security only
plays the role as an idealist illusion. In reality, this is how life works
and thus, society occurs In the same way. No matter how safe you
want to “play it” or how much you want to keep the peace, something
always happens and nothing is ever going to keep its equilibrium. This
isn’t pessimism, this is only probability and life, as we know it, bases
itself on chance.

12. Incorporating hope will help anyone with their endeavors! Why
not? When we have hope, we feel happiness, excitement,
enthusiasm, basically, hope is the catalyst for motivation. As we
know, motivation is the key to success as it opens up the door for
opportunity which will, in turn, set the stage for hard work. With
hard work, we will yield the crop of our endeavors, of which, the
harvest will be great and afterwards, we can plant more of the
seeds of hope in our lives, especially our work!

13. Society's in the way that our view of things have to be distorted in order to
achieve accomplishment, perfection, and other such feelings. From our
approval of others all the way to even ourselves, it seems that we've allowed
our viewpoint to be abstracted. The "man" in this image represents
distortion of ourselves while the background represents the cause of
distortion itself. The abstract nature of this work proves the point in that our
world is one in which colors and shades collide, basically, different
viewpoints collide, influence our way of thinking, and seldom do they
combine. Our way of thinking, in short, is only a testament of our
environment and at the same time, our point of views. But often, we
overlook what really matters, to us or to others.

14. The goal of life is simply to live, but is that enough? Identity seems like
a simple goal, but it isn't, some people spend their whole lives
searching for their own, while others never find it.

15. Caged in, trapped in a sorrowful place. A place where no one exists, at least no one
but me. Alone, I live in this world. I barely survive and barely thrive. Throughout
the universe, others grow together, with just myself, I will not last. So therefore, I
stay in this predicament, never to be bothered, never to be happy. My bearers
chose to raise me here in solitude, so all I know is solitude, and so alone I lay in
space. Never will I be content, I can only have my space. Alone.

16. Behind the glass wall lies a trap. You can see light but you can never reach it.
There's a better, freer world out there, but you're caught in the trap, a trap that
believes it can protect you but in reality, it only hinders you. Behind the glass
wall, you can only see reality, but you can never partake in it. You will never
experience life as it was meant behind it. You are enveloped and dulled because of
the sheer force of it. Your dreams are useless behind the glass wall. Behind the
glass wall, you see the light. Behind the glass wall, the light is bright. Behind the
glass wall, you see the life. Behind the glass wall, you can't live life, At least, to
your full potential.

17. Like the planets and the stars, humans exist as a universal community. We
all exist and coexist together on this earth and as a portion of its
inhabitants, we make sure that for the sake of our planet and our
species, that we live as a community. Sure, many of us, in fact, desire to do
the complete opposite but for the most part, we are together in our goal to
live peacefully, together, in love.

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