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Lining Sun '18
A sense of colorful peace
2018
painting on computer
By Lining Sun '18
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
Link to Website
2021
Projection Installation
Inspired by Stanford’s Romanesque architecture and towering palm trees, I wanted to capture the university’s vibrant energy and beauty.
2019
Digital Illustration
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
2017
Oil Paint on Canvas
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
2023
Oil on wood panel
Episode 1 of an upcoming mystery micro-film series
2022
Short Film
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
Photograph/Scanned Image
This is a painting of inception as an artist at the Louvre Museum recreates “The Death of Sardanapalus” by Delacroix, a little boy looking up in awe.
Acrylic on Canvas
This is a photograph taken of me practicing golf! I particularly enjoy the lighting and the visual interplay between the golf ball and the clubface.
Photograph of Athletics
A reflection of my Korean heritage in the new digital age, and how technology distorts my self-perception and my relationship with my culture.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This is a self portrait examining the complex nature of identity through both realistic forms and abstract shapes.
2016
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
2020
gouache (two images combined digitally)
A series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
code poems
Abstract photography with the goal of rendering mundane objects unrecognizable.
Photography
This piece is a manipulated photograph printed on metal.
Mixed Media on Metal
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 piece depicts how TikTok primarily portrays a fetishized version of Asian women, leading to an uncertain digital future of complicated dynamics.
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Oil paint on canvas
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.
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
De-identified photograph taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
2015
Photograph