Silver Talent Award 2025

Artwork title: Bittersweet Blue
Medium: Colored pencil, Water color, Pastel, and Pen
Size: 15.5×21.5
Submission ID: 148 (Korea, Republic Of)
Category: Drawing & Painting
Group: Middle/High

Artwork description: The blue bird on the top looks down while feeding the berries to herself. She watches her childhood while sitting on a human’s hand and her mother is giving her berries. It feels like life was so easy back then. Now she needs to find the berries on her own. As a teenage student I started to find my own “berries” symbolizing my elements towards a bright future. These could be going to good universities, and becoming adults. The flight toward the berry tree is studying and learning. As I grow, I need to work by myself to enjoy the “berries”. These “berries” are hard to achieve. Until now, my parents have given me access to an abundant amount of food and water, education, and purchases of items needed and wanted. However, when I become an adult, I should reach the berry tree and be able to do all of them by myself. I am not saying my parents would just dump me after I became an adult, because they would always be near the tree close to mine.

Award name: Silver Talent Award
Awarded to refined, skillfully executed works showing depth and artistic clarity.