For the next few days we'll be featuring pics from our awesome first-year grads' mid-program reviews. ⠀⠀ These are works by Zhangruo Sun '21. From Sun's statement: "I approach each #painting as if engaged in the practice of psychotherapy. According to Freud, psychotherapy was a process that people could be cured by making conscious their unconscious thoughts and motivations, thus gaining insight. In the same way, I use illustration to reconciliation with myself. Most of the time, I use my mathematical knowledge to organize my abstract emotions, and at the same time, many real-life metaphors and references are hidden in paintings. These paintings bring unconscious awareness to the surface, and then become visual images and metaphors. This form of self-analysis is the first step towards building my personality, developing self-understanding, and making peace with myself. Categories Mid-Program Reviews