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Sophia Lu '19
Serenity from within results from letting go.
2014
Watercolor
By Sophia Lu '19
Pair of multimaterial CNC dragonflies (brass, copper, aluminum, steel). The dragonflies explore age and rebirth through corrosion.
2024
Sculpture
An ode to a few of many meaningful moments shared with friends over a cafe drink – Coffee at Peet’s, Chai by Meyer Green, and Matcha over Zoom.
Gouache on Paper
This is a painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
2022
Oil Paint on Canvas
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
Link to Website
Video Art (with sound)
Androids may dream of electric sheep, and electric sheep …
doodle
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
2018
Oil paint on canvas
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
2017
I was inspired by a picture I took of my grandfather when visiting Korea for the first time since immigrating to America in 2001.
2023
Oil on Canvas
I loved this photograph my mom took on our trip to Kenya, and I wanted to recreate the beautiful designs on the fabric here.
2016
Charcoal
Thousands of stippled dots layer on each other to create each gargoyle and rooftop, coming together to reveal the magnificent, historical spire.
2020
Pen and Ink
A series of photo edits of everyday moments at Stanford.
Digital Art
Photojournalistic exploration of the human impact of rhino poaching in South Africa – done in Prof Sue McConnell’s overseas seminar in Summer 2016.
Photographs
Location: Main Quad
Digital Illustration
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
This is the first of an ongoing watercolor series completed under shelter-in-place, based on photos that friends have sent of their favorite views.
Often, I find myself missing the changing of seasons. But if I just look closely, signs of autumn are all around.
2019
Nature Photography
(Work in progress) Monstera in grayscale w/ orchre yellow stems
Past lovers who couldn’t be together grieve over “what was” and “what could have been”, learning each other’s rhythms tenderly for the first time.
I drew some random kid I found on a Youtube thumbnail. I think it was an Omeleto video.
Colored Pencil on Paper, Digital
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
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