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VICTORIA YIN: My first international art exposition was when I was 10.
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ZOE YIN: I started drawing when I was only one-year-old.
ZOE YIN: My paintings sell for like $15,000, $20,000.
VICTORIA YIN: The larger works I've done have gone all the way up to $30,000.
VICTORIA YIN: My sister and I - ZOE YIN: We're extremely best friend.
VICTORIA YIN: We are almost like one.
ZOE YIN: Artwork for me is just fun.
VICTORIA YIN: Art that makes you think I think is the best.
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JANE PINEL: Today we've invited a select group of people to come to meet Zoe and Victoria.
ZOE YIN: Taking, like, something that you've done before and showing it to other people
definitely takes some kind of courage, but once you've done it over and over again, it'll
actually feel pretty good.
EVA XU: Zoe's work is more passionate, uh, it's more modern.
It's very happy.
ZOE YIN: I really enjoy swaying along to music, so that's kind of how my paintings look like.
ZOE YIN: I'm extremely honored whenever somebody takes a strong interest in my artwork.
GALLERY GUEST: I was wondering if I could get a picture with you.
ZOE YIN: Sure.
GALLERY GUEST: Your art is beautiful.
ZOE YIN: Thank you.
It's very different from my sister's.
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YIZHONG YIN: Victoria's work is more rational and precise.
JANE PINEL: She's recreating her own myth and fiction within the painting.
VICTORIA YIN: I use a lot of the snake and the apple because those symbols represent
like, the past of mankind, while instead these forms are very geometric and almost robotic,
therefore a bit more futuristic.
GALLERY GUEST: Age 12 you did that?
VICTORIA YIN: Yeah.
Two years ago, so - GALLERY GUEST: You're 15?
VICTORIA YIN: I'm 14 now.
Yeah.
GALLERY GUEST: Wow.
VICTORIA YIN: Especially at such a young age for me, to have other people be interested
in my ideas, it's really wonderful.
GALLERY GUEST: I love what you do.
VICTORIA YIN: Thank you.
ZOE YIN: It's really an honor to be called a prodigy 'cause like, when we first started
painting, it was for enjoyment.
We'd paint and go like, "Oh, this looks so pretty!
I love it!"
And didn't really want to sell our paintings 'cause we were like, "Oh no, I love this one
so much."
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EVA XU: They seem to be really, uh, born with this talent.
YIZHONG YIN: It's probably more from, uh, your family's side.
I cannot even draw, like, a, a full circle.
VICTORIA YIN: I started painting when I was like, a very young child.
My first pieces, they were usually of more, uh, realistic subjects, such as like, birds
and deer and things like that.
VICTORIA YIN: My first international art exposition was when I was 10.
It was then that I was discovered by the agent that I'm currently with now.
Usually my artworks sell for like an average price of around $16,000.
The larger works I've done have gone all the way up to $30,000.
EVA XU: In the beginning, you know, that kind of price coming in, I was like, "Wow," you
know.
YIZHONG YIN: It was a surprise.
EVA XU: Yeah.
I guess we got used to it, so -
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ZOE YIN: I started drawing when I was only one-year-old.
Circles were my favorite kind of shape to draw.
The circles kept on advancing and evolving until it finally came to what it is now.
ZOE YIN: Right now I sold about 20 pieces or so.
I don't keep track of them.
JANE PINEL: People are buying them for investments because they figure that Victoria and Zoe
are going to go on to become more and more known, and more and more popular.
ZOE YIN: Artwork for me is like, just fun, like, don't think about the money.
VICTORIA YIN: As a high schooler I don't have much to spend on.
The money just goes into a savings account, you know, perhaps for college later, or things
like that.
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VICTORIA YIN: My sister and I, we are very close.
I like, can't imagine what my life would be like without her.
I mean, she and I are just so - almost like one.
ZOE YIN: We're extremely best friends.
We tell each other everything.
If I, like, don't tell somebody else something, I'd always go tell her.
VICTORIA YIN: People ask, you know, maybe it's inevitable that you kind of feel a little
bit of competition with your sibling, but I actually don't really think so.
I feel like this kind of relationship, I'm really, um, blessed to have.
VICTORIA YIN: I've, uh, been younger than my classmates for a very long time now.
From first grade I skipped to third grade.
I've always liked being around older people, and when I was around kids my own age sometimes
I felt a bit, like, kind of alien.
YIZHONG YIN: They're still, you know, children.
I still want them to be like a normal kid and, you know, socialize with friends at school.
VICTORIA YIN: Right now I'm working on a rendition of one of Michelangelo's sculptures called
"Dying Slave."
Basically I've just taken a portion of the sculpture and, um, put it onto a 2D canvas.
Some people might think death can be, like, agonizing.
I'd like to depict it more as a kind of peaceful passing instead, so I made the expression
kind of a bit softer.
VICTORIA YIN: I'm really interested in like, where humans are gonna be going in the future,
exactly what's gonna happen to us as, you know, technology keeps on advancing.
We're probably gonna lose a lot of our identity and like, what makes us different.
So, um, these people are a result of this idea.
They're, um, very geometrical and kind of robotic almost.
VICTORIA YIN: With technology right now, it makes our lives a lot easier.
But there's always consequences to that.
So, um, whether it's good or bad, I can't say.
ZOE YIN: Right now there are lots of people enjoy listening to music and like, watching
TV and stuff, so there's actually lots of talented painters out there that really don't
get noticed.
VICTORIA YIN: Art is a very, uh, complex thing right now.
I feel like sometimes it's under appreciated in this society.
YIZHONG YIN: I want them to be happy, and do what they like to do.
But I also get a little worried that an artist's road could be a little rough.
EVA XU: It's really not about appearance, you know.
It's like, they like what they like to do.
They'll make their choice when they grow up, so you know, no pressure.
JANE PINEL: Zoe and Victoria obviously will be around for a long time, and they'll ultimately
be very well-known for their work.
ZOE YIN: I don't like to think too far ahead.
I would just go like, right now I'm this, I want to keep being this.
VICTORIA YIN: I feel like I've already achieved quite a lot so far, for my age.
But um, I think I still definitely have a long way to go.
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VICTORIA YIN: With thinking about the future comes a lot of these big, philosophical questions
that are kind of mind-boggling to think about.
Why are we on earth?
What exactly is the point of, you know, living?
To be able to put this really big idea into something that people can see, you know, visually,
it's a, it's a struggle.
You have to be able to do it right.
And I don't think that I have exactly come up with something that has completely depicted
this kind of idea for me.
So it's definitely a long-term aspiration.