COEUR d’ALENE — A curious piece of work titled "Getting Down to the Jelly" might makes its viewers think, "What are they looking at?"

"I was trying something different with this one," North Idaho College art student and Aspiring Artists Club member Alex Galford said Monday. "I wasn't really thinking about anything, I let my hand just doodle.

"You're looking into a zoo, the animals are looking back and really, we're in the zoo," he said.

It was originally an untitled piece, Galford explained.

"There’s so many stories for it," Galford said. "It's kind of like the jelly of the doughnut, the meat of something."

"Getting Down to the Jelly" placed first in the Aspiring Artist Club's spring art show, "Art in Full Bloom." Galford said his piece will be on display in Emerge, a downtown Coeur d'Alene gallery.

"It's exciting," said Galford, who entered three pieces into the show.

"It's kind of cool," he said. "I didn’t think that would be the one that people would like."

"Art in Full Bloom" showcases the talent of 20 different student artists. Those who place highest, like Galford, will have their works placed in local galleries.

"Exposure is priceless, and the opportunity is priceless," Aspiring Artists Club President Robert Perry said. "It resonates with them for a lifetime. You have to create that spark somewhere, somehow."

One of Perry's pieces in the show is the sculpture of a head covered in newspaper headlines. It's called, "Hindsight is 2020."

"We all processed 2020 differently," Perry said. "There’s just different catchphrases that were a result, that impacted us throughout this year. I thought, 'What better than to create that as kind of a skin and put a visual image of these thoughts and the catchphrases that impacted us?'"

"Art in Full Bloom" runs through Wednesday in the Half Round Bay Room in the Edminster Student Union Building on campus, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d'Alene.

Masks and social distancing are required.