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Lily Thai '27
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2022
Watercolor on Paper
By Lily Thai '27
Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.
2017
Digital Visual Art
A portrait of a good dog who has traveled a very long way.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
Oil paint on panel
This is a painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
Oil Paint on Canvas
This work is a triptych of body parts from several acclaimed works by Renaissance artists. The famous works are reimagined in a modern style.
2018
A self-portrait composed of identity objects: rings from my mother, the teapot on my coffee table, the graphic on my favorite t-shirt, etc.
Digital Collage
My mother in her monthly kimchi-making ritual, a food that I learned to take pride in despite being initially ashamed of it.
Location: East Asia Library
2021
Digital Illustration
My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
Laser Cut Birchwood
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
Ink and print on wood
My family, despite being cramped in a bungalow room that was our home, share warmth and happiness beyond understanding.
This project was done on a ten-day summer trip to my family’s ranch.
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Environmental Photographs
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
2019
Photography
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
Fog drapes over the breathtaking mountain tops and diffuses across the road of Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, creating a sense of quietude.
Acrylic on Canvas
This is a study of Auguste Rodin’s “Bust of St. John the Baptist,” in an attempt to capture the densely textured look of the original.
Charcoal, white chalk on toned paper
These photos will never be published in a journalistic publication – familiar scenes on campus but different, the other side of palm tree paradise?
Photograph of campus scenes
This work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
Oil on Canvas