Reflections Gallery

"Be A Little More" is a song I wrote to help me accept the imperfections in life. It talks about feeling along or out of place yet finding strength to...

I made Scaredy the Clumsy ghost with my own pictures that I drew.I wanted to create an animated short story. I used Canva to make my pictures move and make the back...

My piece, “Breaks,” reflects this year’s Reflections theme, portraying a young musician learning a difficult piece. During a lesson, her instructor plays it...

This is a self portrait about self criticism and how I've learned to overcome pressures placed on me by myself and the society around me. I've often found...

This year, I made a dumb choice by sneaking out after midnight for a joyride with my friends on my birthday. It was late and I had never driven with friends before...

Sometimes we may feel discouraged and want to give up because others seem so happy and perfect and we feel bad when we view ourselves as completely imperfect. Taken...

My artwork tells a story of a girl pushing herself too hard to be perfect, she tries to live up to standards that her clouds made. My video gives clips of the world...

Sometimes I see myself as imperfect. I look at my reflection and can't even muster enough strength to look myself in the eyes. But when I feel what is in my...

This year I wanted to do the film production for reflections. I thought it would be an interesting way to show examples of accepting imperfection. My film shows why...

If something is perfect how does it get better? Does it? Everything can get better even if it is extremely good. Imperfections are everywhere. If we accept them we...

Accepting imperfection isn’t just about accepting that something isn’t perfect. It’s about accepting that imperfect things can still change. When we have a narrow-...

The tire on the bike is warped to show imperfection, and not everything has to be perfect.

I use to not like my hair or my smile. but now I love them, they are not perfect, and that's okay.

People in general have a hard time looking themselves in the mirror. Many find it hard to see their flaws. I have experienced this also. When I was doing this art I...

I’ve struggled with being a perfectionist my entire life. Too often, it becomes all-consuming, to the point where I can only see what is bad and wrong. My high...

Me and my siblings were all born with birth defects, and all have had G-tubes. This is my littlest brother Lincoln, and I love him because he is cute and kind. We...

When I was ten years old, I was diagnosed as  legally blind. My dad also is blind, he helped me through it like he always does. Two years ago I was diagnosed with...

Ryker was diagnosed with autism when he was two. Ryker was normal and when we came back from vacation he was different. He had a blanket carried around. He was...

This photograph shows how much pride I take in my old tights. They look imperfect but they tell a story.The holes and stains tell tales of things good and bad; The...

We find discarded object in all if the spaces and places we go. They hide in corners and on high shelves, or sit in trash cans waiting to be disposed of. These...

Trash is one of the most imperfect things on earth. But if you use it right, it can be made into one of the most beautiful things on earth. Most people would assume...

I wrote this story because everyone has their differences and imperfections but no one should be ashamed of them. I often feel like I have to be perfect, but no one...

The giraffe is the tallest land animal . I am one of the shortest in my class. People make fun of me . But I learn to deal with it and that can help me grow into...

Truly I am the definition of this theme. From a young age, because of my family history, I have been a perfectionist. Thinking that it would make people love me,...

My artwork represents my insecurities and mistakes. Initially, I planned a 2D project since I'm skilled in drawing, but I chose the challenging route of...

Beauty is not defined by perfection; rather, it is our imperfections that make us uniquely beautiful and human. Learning to accept our imperfections takes self-...

I made a puzzle of me and I painted it, then I glued it onto a canvas… Took some pieces out and then glued it on to the canvas. And I made this because no face is...

I wrote this song because it is about trying again. When I am playing the piano, I sometimes miss a note or play a wrong note, and I know I can keep trying. When I...

My poem is about my insulin pump sites on my stomach because I have Type 1 Diabetes. This summer, I got a pump for the first time. It is hard for me to look at my...

When my sister, Ellie, was just three days old, our family was told that she had two holes in her heart and that she would need surgery. She ended up having three...

With this year’s theme, I wanted to embrace imperfection by using dissonant chords and clashing melodies to show that even though life will never be perfect (or in...

The friends who Midnight is asking are telling her to keep trying and to not give up. I can keep trying and not give up when I get frustrated about getting things...

Pizza is my favorite food, but I don't like cheese. So I have to accept the imperfect cheese in order to enjoy my favorite food. I tried to make a pizza out of...

This piece of art reflects the theme of "accepting imperfection" by really pointing out the cracks on the sculpture. By coloring the cracks and crevices...

We are all mosaics of who we have loved. We are imperfect collages sewn together from the pieces of our lives. The first step to accepting imperfection is to learn...

Imperfections can create regret and frustration, disappointment and sorrow. But they also create masterpieces of memory. Life is a knitted blanket, and with each...

I choreographed this dance because it goes with the theme, Accepting Imperfections. I think Girls can do anything and they don't have to be perfect. I wanted...

I did this animation to one of my favorite songs because I thought it fit the theme perfectly, I constantly worry about mistakes that I made that don’t really...

I chose to do an upside down poem because it is an interesting way to show two ways of thought. From the top to the bottom is the opposite of accepting...

At first the characters want everything to be perfect but by the end they don't care. They realize it doesn't matter what other people think.

I love music and play the piano and I was thinking about how life can be like my music sometimes. I have had a hard year and sometimes having bad things makes you...

The alive flowers on the skull and dead not on it. It is imperfect because they are dead flowers off it.

Ice Skating is the best. It makes me feel happy. I try to do my best.

We may not like our experiences, and they may be imperfect, but they make us who we are.

My story, "The Talent Show" is a story about a girl who doesn't feel like she is very good at magic. She enters a school talent show hoping to do...

With all of our mistakes, our imperfections, or things we get wrong, we create things like stress for ourselves, but we don’t have to be perfect at all, because we...

We are all different. We don't have to be perfect. We are all tied together.

I like my quilt because it has so many colors. Emotions can feel like lots of different colors. They can seem like good or bad emotions but in the end all of the...

Everybody has different imperfections they are worried about. They feel self conscious about themselves and try to fix them. When that shouldn’t be the case. I feel...

Every basketball player misses shots, when I play basketball, I miss a ton of shots. My favorite basketball player is Donovan Mitchell, and even though he's...

I like to write jazz music because so many extra notes can be in the chord and it’s not considered wrong. The extra notes make things beautiful, just like mistakes...

There is a small wolf named Ivy and all the other wolves hunt a lot, but Ivy cannot hunt like all the other wolves and she does not really care! But she will just...

"Shine On Through The Light" is a choral piece that highlights the beauty found in imperfections. The lyrics convey how our flaws and scars tell unique,...

Bella was born with three legs. She didn’t even know she wasn’t a normal dog and could do everthing dogs with four legs can. She was always happy and I think she...

“The Whittler” shows the challenges that Whittler’s face when making art. In carving there is a limited amount of physical material an artist can work with. Because...

My song is like learning Chinese in school. At first, the music is slow and easy, like when we learn simple words. But then, the song gets faster, like when the...

The Japanese art of kintsugi is repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with powdered gold. In this piece, a Japanese girl shows her fearlessness...

My name is Harper Heath, and when I first saw the prompt “Embracing Imperfection” for my poem, I was reminded of one of my lifelong aspirations to be grateful for...

This is Squid the snake wrapped around Flower the cactus. On the pot of the cactus, it says if we were all perfect, unique wouldn't be a word. Whether we are...

I practiced my drawing on a paper and draw it on a board with paint markers. The kidiys are not perfect because they are different colors and sizes than real kidiys...

This book is about a butterfly named Bella that is white and other butterflies make fun of her because her wings are white and theirs are colorful. One day Bella is...

My song starts out calm but slowly gets faster and louder representing a problem or a mistake. It gets to its peak when the person keeps trying to be perfect. Then...

These are my grandma's hands. She has a bump on the left hand because she has arthritis. They are not perfect but that is one of my favorite things about her.

What Lies Under the Surface is a fictional retelling of a story based on something that happened in my own life. It follows a girl, the narrator, who lives...

This is a glass art sculpture. I was trying to make it into a jewelry holder, but it turned out it wasn't perfect. Because things don't have to be perfect...

This work is for those who are not able to feel confident with who or what they have and it is very important to me.

Everybody is beautiful. People are so different. We make mistakes. It's okay to make mistakes because we can try again.

I like learning how to play new things on my viola.

This song captures my journey of self-acceptance, especially the struggle of understanding emotions differently from others. It reflects the loneliness and doubt...

Sometimes, it's easy to forget your worth. It's important to remember that even though those around you often influence you, you are still, YOU.

In this world it’s easy to feel disappointed with ourselves and others. There are so many things that are imperfect and so many things outside of our control. It’s...

I liked my song because it goes up down. And it repeats. And in life, we have to be good with the ups and the downs, the good and the imperfections

When people watch this video, I hope they learn that if you wait for everything to be perfect, you'll miss out on all the fun. If you want it to be perfect,...

This short film is about a man who thinks his life is perfect. He has a good job, good hair, and he is healthy. Then one morning, something is off. He has a...

My family is far from perfect. Growing up, I remember bickering with my siblings in the car about who got shotgun, who was DJ, and who had to suffer with limited...

Sometimes we do something we aren't supposed to and we tell them we are sorry and that's an accident. And sometimes brothers are good and I like them....

In my artwork, the crayons represent seven different people. The yellow crayon snapped in half because he thought that he wasn’t perfect. Coming out of him is all...

This dance represents my journey toward self-acceptance as I struggled with body dysmorphia as a dancer.

Life is wondrous! Even if things are not perfect you can still look around and see wonderful things. I like how it says in the lyrics "it grows from just a...

Usually when you look in the mirror you see yourself, but you don't see the imperfections in your life. In this broken mirror you can see that no one is...

The title, and the rather dissonant music, capture how my piece relates to the theme.

I created a video about how I can find inspiration by hearing stories of people who were able to accept their own imperfection.

I have autism. when I was younger I hated feeling different and didn't want to go to school anymore. One day I ran out of the school. While my mom was...

When most people look at dandelions, the first thing they see is a gross weed that will invade their garden. But when a younger child sees a dandelion, they see it...

Lately in my photography, when things don't go as expected, I've learned if I can accept imperfection, the end result can be even better than I imagined....

This artwork represents being imperfect where the pattern is irregular. This artwork is imperfect but it is still fine.

When we look in a mirror, oftentimes, all we see are flaws. We try to cover up our imperfections and change ourselves. Doing this can be detrimental to our...

Kitsungi is something where someone breaks a bowl and they fix it. It isn't perfect because the bowl is broken but it can turn out when something breaks it can...

Sometimes we feel like we have to be perfect and look perfect to fit in. We don't need to. But when we judge ourselves or think badly about ourselves, we crack...

When kids laugh at my freckles, it makes me feel like I don’t fit in. It hurts, and I used to wish my freckles would go away. But I’m starting to accept that...

This spoon is the thing that inspired me to have a junk collection. It got all funky by going down the garbage disposal. My mom said it was broken and wanted to...

It's okay to make mistakes. You just get back up and try again to act like it's into the dance.

This buffalo in Yellowstone isn't perfect. He is missing some of his fur, which is what makes him unique. This is why if you are different, you should accept...

When most people think of the word imperfections they think of their looks, but I think of other things. What comes to my mind is dance. When I dance, it’s...

I was so excited to be accepted in the advanced welding program senior year. I first tried welding last year and decided I wanted to learn this trade as my...

In the poem "The Hill We Climb" Amanda Gorman tell us that we don't have to be the best to get better. Her poem is about America and she says, "...

It's about 3 friends who go on a hike. The lesson is: Even when things don't go as planned, like not having a map, and getting lost, you can still adjust...

This is a story about a tiger who feels sad because he doesn't have stripes like the other tigers. He meets new friends and realizes everyone is different in...

This piece of art was inspired by me, because the heart sees what the eyes want to hide and in a world full of imperfections, embracing ourselves by accepting our...

A chink is a bend in a knight's armor after he went to battle. I had to go to battle to make this song, but it was worth it because I made a masterpiece after...

I wrote about my hand because my hand is a big difference in me. My hand is really different from other people's. I was born without fingers on my left hand...

Sidewalks are definitely imperfect. I found cracks and holes and turned them into something that is beautiful.

“I felt that this song fit the theme perfect this year and really helps others see that even if we feel broken or feel like we fell short we can try again and our...

I made this lego portrait of myself to show that we are all made up of different parts. These different colored and shaped lego bricks are like the traits that make...

This work of art shows 3 pictures of my loved ones. They’re meant to look like I took Polaroid pictures. Each one shows a small difference that I noticed in my...

Whenever I draw it takes me a long time because I try to make it perfect, but when I finish I see a million different mistakes. While others think it is great. I...

I choreographed this piece to represent how my imperfections have made me who I am today. I faced rejection from school dance teams and wasn’t reaching my goals as...

This piece of 3D art reflects the idea that beauty can be found within imperfection. The artwork was created using what most people would consider trash- materials...

Society is quick to judge people born with imperfections. This work of art is based on a real girl who was born with what many would call a defect. She was born...

A picture of my friends cheering for me

“The monsters in my drawing are just being themselves—they’re all different, and they know they aren’t perfect, and that’s okay. They make mistakes, but that’s part...

Imperfections is a hard word to understand. My mom explained that it is like a crumpled piece of paper. It has things that are wrong with it. I know that I am...

I felt like even though sometimes you mess up in life it’s a beautiful piece of yourself.

My nephew was born with symbrachydactyly. He inspires me a lot and so I tried to use my hand a lot during the dance to show that you can still do anything you put...

My journey with scoliosis has been a long journey of both physical and emotional transformation. My spine has never aligned with traditional standards of the world...

This flower caught my attention while hiking with my family to Cecret Lake in Utah. I noticed how the dead log has helped create something beautiful by protecting...

The gem has a piece missing from it, but it is still beautiful.

My story connects to the theme: “Accepting Imperfection” by giving an example of what this might look like in someone’s life. Often, we think that if we take away...

Imperfection can be seen as something ominous and dangerous like a raven, it can also seem big and threatening. But upclose it is majestic, graceful, sleek, and...

The phenomena of ubiquitous experience felt by the entirety of society is so rare that you'd think such an occurrence would be beneficial, but imperfection is...

My family and I drove to California this summer and saw the ocean. We walked the beach a long time picking up shells. I saw everyone keeping only the perfect shells...

A boy who wants to be a magician and wants to make things disappear, keeps turning things into zucchinis. And he got an idea and walked to his neighbors houses to...

I reflected the theme on my piece through the different changes in dynamic, tempo and keys in the piece. I show in my piece that even if everything starts okey,...

Perfection is an illusion because it is impossible to be good, or perfect at everything. Everyone is good at different things and that’s what makes you unique. In...

This original choreography to the music “Something to Someone” is my interpretation of the theme “Accepting Imperfection”. This dance is about the struggle of...

This dance is about accepting imperfections which means you can't be perfect and sometimes its hard to do things. But you can try your best and let other...

Accepting imperfections means to me that I am getting better at soccer.

My sister has diabetes and it’s hard for her. But she won’t let that stop her and she does water polo. Most people with diabetes don’t do that because it will...

I wrote this about accepting imperfection because everybody has things that they need to get better at! Just because you aren't perfect at something doesn...

Everyday you feel like you have to try hard to fit in, but you just have to learn to except yourself and know that being imperfect is ok and it makes you who you...

When I dance I feel free. For my dance , i danced by smelly water, surrounded by bugs, and my feet in mud. It was not a perfect place to dance. I had to accept...

This story kind of reflects my own experience. I don't do ballet, but I do contemporary dance. Recently, when I practiced, I kept getting a step wrong, but...

I have a stuttering disfluency. Often, I feel like I can't speak like there is a zipper closing my mouth and I can't open it. I feel bad when others make...

I made an apron because aprons keep you clean and let you be creative and messy. I sewed an apron for the first time. It wasn't perfect but I'm glad I...

I’ve written about my own experiences of learning to accept my own imperfections. It’s a raw, emotional piece of literature that explores what made me perceive my...

This art piece is my attempt of explaining my personal relationship with my imperfections. It’s of a girl staring into a mirror as she watches herself be taken...

I learned how to accept imperfect from Chantal Peticlerc. She is an amazing woman who was paralyzed from the waist down at age 13. She says that she overcame this...

I want to make a clam because they turn bad things into pearls, and pearls are beautiful.

Throughout our world's history perfection has been a vastly researched concept. Renowned artists and scientists such as Leonardo Di Vinci have toyed with its...

I took this picture in a flower field and used a mirror to reflect my model. Most of the time when we look at ourselves we focus on our imperfections. Our...

Sometimes letters look backwards to me and people don't understand what I'm saying. My school papers have lots of red x's and people tell me I don...

When you are looking in the mirror sometimes you don't know what is real and what is an illusion. Your eyes can play tricks on you and you may not know which...

Sometimes you fall and sometimes you make mistakes, it just matters if you don't try again. You don't fail if you made mistakes, you only fail if you give...

Theme: Accepting Imperfection. This song is about how every day you can make mistakes and there is always tomorrow. The song goes from early in the morning while it...

My cello's name is Cracky. I named my cello Cracky because he's old and has cracks. My cello teacher lets his student borrow him, so he's been well...

My leaf has a little hole in it, and I think it makes it look cool. Even though it’s not a perfect leaf, I like it just the way it is. The hole lets me see through...

IT was epic sometimes we make mistakes. The mistake was best because you can learn from redoing it correct. Its always important when you make mistakes to love....

Our limitations are sometimes seen as a weakness. But truly, being imperfect makes us stronger. When we overcome the challenges that took so long for us to fight,...

I am accepting imperfection by taking imperfect materials bound for the trash, like empty milk jugs, paper packaging and an old dirty glove, and instead using them...

The picture represents Helen Keller, a blind and deaf women important to American history. The first sign she learned was the sign for water. Hold out 3 fingers. It...

Your reflection may be warped or imperfect, but the real thing, YOU, are beautiful. This photo shows "accepting of imperfection" because it shows the...

Basketball is my favorite thing to do. It is really fun. I was sad I didn't make the team but at least I made a manager.

When I was told I needed glasses I was worried about how I would look. The lion in my picture still looks strong and powerful with glasses and so do I.

I don’t love school and I don’t think college is for me. Last year, I took welding for the first time. I had to learn because I had no idea how to do it. Creating...

This dance reminds me its ok to make mistakes and even if it's not perfect, that I can do it!

I learned about imperfection from my 3 year old sister. In her first dance performance, she got scared and laid down on the stage for a lot of the dance while...

I work really hard at dance and tumbling. Sometimes I get frustrated or mad when I can’t get a skill I’ve been working on for awhile or if I mess up. I liked this...

Skating is a sport where there is a big emphasis on perfection. It is judged. The imperfections are always being pointed out. But the best skating happens when you...

Calvin, my 6-year-old brother, sets out to have a perfect day. Things don't go perfect with a lot of funny mishaps. He learns to appreciate the imperfections...

This story is about a girl who feels like that one mess up you crumple up and step on, but in the end she knows she, and everyone, is a masterpiece. My story...

I wrote this piece because even if it has weird notes, it still sounds good. Accepting imperfection is accepting peculiar things, like dissonant notes. So even if...

I was learning to ride a bike and knew learning would be hard so the next day I made a song about it. I tried to make the words that related to the theme. I was...

This dance relates to the theme because "the ugly duckling" starts with small steps not trying to embarrass herself. Later she realizes that it's...

Sometimes life can change who you are on the outside. I was in an accident and paralyzed part of my face. I cannot move one eyebrow, my smile is crooked, and my...

Every piece of you makes you YOU. In this sculpture she is holding a puzzle piece because you may have jagged edges but it still makes up you. You are not...

Look at me

This is of me. Half of me is me and half of me is a puzzle. I love all the pieces of me. The good and the bad. It all makes me me.

When you feel sad, you feel shattered. You feel like you don't belong. You feel like everyone is looking at you and your flaws. You feel alone. I feel this way...

When rain falls it just lands where it lands. No one ever says, "That rain didn't fall correctly," and sends it back to the clouds to try again. We...

I wrote this song about accepting who you are and trying to be pulled out of the thoughts of your imperfections. I wanted to emphasize the importance of focusing on...

I feel like in dance we have to hit all the beats to have the right timing and be perfect on that. That’s the same thing for life. If we don’t hit those beats in...