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Sophia Lu '19
Serenity from within results from letting go.
2014
Watercolor
By Sophia Lu '19
This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
2022
Water Color on Paper
“David” is a 3D bust loosely based on Michelangelo’s piece of the same name. Inspired by the music video of “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits.
2018
Blender 3D Render
India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.
2017
Enamel Paint
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
Photograph of Landscape
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
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Watercolor on Paper
*sixth photograph of Hidden Gems series
2019
Series of Photographs
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
Photograph
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
2016
Digital Visual Art
This piece explores duality in behavior: relaxing the tongue can provide a positive experience during kissing, but can prove deadly with sleep apnea. Link to Artwork
Writing
This self portrait depicts how your initial view of the world glitches, or shatters as different experiences come with growing up.
2020
Colored pencil
At Bay is a student-created web series about the launch of a Stanford startup that goes horribly, horribly wrong.
Link to Website
Still from a web series
Not sure if this counts, but I created a Stanford logo made from many smaller photos. I can make another one, from more interesting photos.
Digital Photograph
The central focus of these prints is the vibrant potato starch granule depicted under polarized light and how its shape and colors are manipulated.
2023
Algorithmic Art made with Processing
She wipes the mask off after a long day.
Photoshop
A portrayal of the death of Chaos as depicted in the Zhuangzi, who expired after Shu and Hu bored a new hole into him each day for seven days.
2015
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
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
This series was taken at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion.
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo