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Jianna So '22
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
By Jianna So '22
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
2020
Oil paint on canvas
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.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
At Bay is a student-created web series about the launch of a Stanford startup that goes horribly, horribly wrong.
2016
Still from a web series
I painted a woman who is battered but is pushing herself back up with resiliency. She sends a message of hope to those facing difficulties.
acrylic on wood
A sketched self-portrait replaced into its photographic context.
Graphite on Paper, Photograph
BEAM Stanford-related photos
2019
Digital photographs
This painting was an exercise to try and use simple, yet bold brushstrokes to capture the essence of the moment.
2018
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
She wipes the mask off after a long day.
Photoshop
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
2024
Acrylic on Canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These would represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
This self portrait depicts how your initial view of the world glitches, or shatters as different experiences come with growing up.
Colored pencil
Indigo mountains and a somber gray sky are reflected in the clear water of Lake Tahoe.
2022
Night is when the imagination comes alive.
Digital Illustration
Mice own your belongings at night.
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
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Watercolor on Paper
Using alternative black and white photography techniques, I tried to illustrate the poems of the Persian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri.
Black and White photography
Representation of an Asian woman navigating a worldwide pandemic, situated in the centre of racial prejudice, capitalism, & social media connectivity.
Scanned magazine collage, colour pencils, and pen on Sketchbook
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.
Oil Paint on Canvas