Zhuohan Xu/ Aurora/ John Pumpkin/ Born in 2009

My curiosity runs wide in many directions, so I've ended up working across multiple media. Photography, graphic design, painting, sculpture, architecture...

I'm into quite a lot of ball sports: basketball, soccer, table tennis, billiards, badminton... you name it. I've also been doing street workout on the bars for many years. It's empowering in some ways, gives me diverse perspectives, and provokes my thinking on gender roles through my complicated experience in sport communities. A lot of the 3D work in the “My Voice” section comes directly out of things I noticed and lived through as an athlete first and an artist second.

Besides self-expression, I like putting the skill and creativity I have to work for the people around me. “My Practice” is basically a dumping ground for everything I've designed for my school community.

I would describe myself as warm on the outside and colder underneath. I enjoy solitude. I think in tangents. I like highly saturated colors and dye my hair whatever color I currently like. Occasionally I'm more cynical than I'd like to admit, and in those moments I just want to be a pumpkin.

The pumpkin dressed for the ball: my artist resume