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Lily Thai '27
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2022
Watercolor on Paper
By Lily Thai '27
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
Oil paint on panel
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
2024
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
This is a theatrical self portrait. Fractured light plays off a calm, restrained figure, creating tension and a sense of impending violence. 24″ x 30″
2018
Oil paint on canvas
Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.
2015
Mixed Media
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
2019
Photograph of Man in Paris
History is tied to humanity. There is something heartening about a city that takes pride in its past.
acrylic on canvas
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
A series of photo edits of everyday moments at Stanford.
2017
Digital Art
A reflection of my Korean heritage in the new digital age, and how technology distorts my self-perception and my relationship with my culture.
Link to Website
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
Video Art (with sound)
Serenity from within results from letting go.
2014
Watercolor
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
2016
Ink Resist on Paper
A colorful view of buildings and the sky over Florence (Firenze).
Oil Paint on Canvas
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
Projection Installation
Giant ladle meant to represent heaven, a room where everyone figured out that to feed themselves, they have to feed each other. + Harley Quinn’s bat
2023
Wood sculpture, Metal Sculpture. Can also display photos attached instead
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
This self portrait addresses my invisible disability and the words around me are a mix of medical statements and emotional entries from my journal.
Graphite on Paper