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Vedika Kanchan '23
“I’ve loved you since the day I met you”
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
By Vedika Kanchan '23
This drawing for me is meant to capture some of the dynamic processes I have witnesses in the Cosmos.
2018
Watercolor and black ink
These collages were created from material gathered from a variety of found sources—primarily Life, National Geographic, and Time magazines.
2020
Collage & ink pen
Pinned parts of a traditional Vietnamese dress cut to my measurements. Through deconstruction, functionality and familiarity are lost.
Charcoal and Mixed Media on Salvaged Cotton and Organza
Inspired by a trip to explore the nature preserves in Mass Landing, CA, this art showcases two curlew birds looking for food in the shallow waters.
2017
Watercolor and Pencil
Abstract photography with the goal of rendering mundane objects unrecognizable.
Photography
A collage made from mind media upon reflection of a quarter of studying the classics in Stanford’s freshman SLE residential program.
Mixed Media/Collage
Growing up in Iran taught me that limitation breed creativity. I tried to embody the same lesson by using alternative printing methods in the darkroom
2016
Black & white photography
Princess Going Digital considers queer girlhood on the playground of the laptop screen, a site for unapologetic self-documentation and portraiture.
Gouache on Paper
I took this photo at the Palo Alto Caltrain station in the fall. I used black ink and a black and white filter to provide an “outside of time” look.
Digital Photograph
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.
2021
Oil Paint on Canvas
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
Pen and Marker
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard with numbers juxtaposing letters, emphasizing how some things are not meant to be rushed and will happen in time.
This self-portrait draws on the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe that I, as a latina, have a deeply personal, non-religious, relationship with.
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
Whales and dolphins were my favorite animals when I was younger. In this piece, dark shadows contrasted by blue hues highlight that childhood bond.
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
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.
2022
In “Buried,” I used collage and layering to express the haunting suspicion of a seemingly ordinary event. The nostalgia oblivious bliss.
Mixed Media: paper collage with ink and watercolor
Mice own your belongings at night.
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
2024