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Lining Sun '18
A sense of colorful peace
2018
painting on computer
By Lining Sun '18
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
While at SFMOMA with Stanford’s ITALIC program, I created this self-portrait to explore the merging of technology with my image of self.
2017
Photograph
Androids may dream of electric sheep, and electric sheep …
2022
doodle
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.
2020
Digital Collage
Isolation, fear, and uncertainty are themes that come up more in our lives, seen through nighttime photos taken in the woods.
Link to Website
Photography
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
Acrylic on canvas
Two girls, Cloud and Moon, are safe in space.
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood Sculpture
A faceless woman in a room of South Vietnamese soldiers
Graphite on Paper
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
(Work in progress) Monstera in grayscale w/ orchre yellow stems
2024
Oil on Canvas
Collage exploring feminist and bioethical discussions of reproductive technologies. Previously featured at the Medicine & the Muse Student Symposium. Link to Artwork
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Winter 2017, I wrote my first song, ‘Something You Should Know’. After working on the lyrics, production and recording for two years here it is!
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
2023
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
Mice own your belongings at night.
2016
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
You have pomegranate trees in your backyard, well so do I. Your family can’t afford to live in the Bay Area, well neither can mine…You’re just like me
Oil on canvas
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
16 wooden chairs, each with one leg severed, tap in syncopated rhythm, puncturing through a low droning electrical hum.
Found and modified wooden chairs, custom steel hardware, dc motors, wires, solder, modified cast iron weights