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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
generational echos is an interactive art piece created using Processing, delving into the deeply ingrained cultural values in Vietnamese society.
2023
Interactive Video Installation
Cool portrait of girl trying to keep in her tears.
2018
Photoshop
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.
2019
Photograph/Scanned Image
Rendering of a modern jazz pavilion, referencing the visual skeleton chord structure of jazz compositions.
Digital Rendering
Exploring the weary determination of an aged subject shouldering generational burdens. Experimented with earthier and darker tones, deconstruction, an
2022
Oil Paint on Canvas
Photojournalistic exploration of the human impact of rhino poaching in South Africa – done in Prof Sue McConnell’s overseas seminar in Summer 2016.
2016
Photographs
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
2020
colored pencil, poetry
A portrait of a good dog who has traveled a very long way.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
It’s a shame if you did not get around time to see Hoover Tower in different lights.
Photo
“Ritual” is an unfinished game prototype that is one piece of a meta-narrative that unfolds as the viewer explores the file directory containing it.
Interactive narrative horror game/file explorer experience
I created this piece in order to show a city full of life in contrast to one that is merely an outline.
Acrylic on Paper
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Oil paint on canvas
Taken at Baylands Nature Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a student and a community member.
Photograph
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
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.
Inspired by the strange reflection of an empty glass sitting on a table, this is a piece is about power and powerlessness—control and lack of it.
Acrylic on canvas
Isolation, fear, and uncertainty are themes that come up more in our lives, seen through nighttime photos taken in the woods.
Photography
I love the idea of a personal brand, especially in 2016.
2014
Color Film