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Janice Li '24
I catch lightning bugs, flitting moments often overlooked, and bring attention to them, so that they might spark a lightbulb in the minds of others.
2021
MultiMedia(Charcoal and Colored Pencil)
By Janice Li '24
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
An exploration of nature’s healing power as an avenue for escapism and introspection.
2022
Ballpoint and pencil on paper
The sky disc’s dynamic effects on viewing the sky were photographically documented over the course of a sunrise and a sunset.
2017
Installation: printed plastic sheeting (pictorico), fishing wire
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
This piece was made the week before quarantine when everything was uncertain and the weight of not knowing what was to come next hung over our heads.
Link to Website
2020
Boulder & Rope
This is a collective of poems written while contemplating the relationship between the natural, humans, death, continuity, carnage, and hope. Link to Artwork
2023
Poetry
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Short Film
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 study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
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
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
song / soundscape
BEAM Stanford-related photos
2019
Digital photographs
As we were walking through the streets in Rome, my mom noticed the harsh shadows hitting the restaurant in front of us, creating gorgeous colors.
2016
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
“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
This 5-page word-art series explores the way emotion and memory lives in the body through experimentation with colour.
Mixed media (watercolor, charcoal pencils, pencil) on sketch paper
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
Photograph
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
Watercolor
How do you heal after being discarded?
Acrylic on Canvas
This symbolizes unity, being made by members of the Black Community. South African word, Umbutu, translates to togetherness or “I am because we are”
Acrylic on Paper
These are part of an ongoing series of portraits of people I met in passing. They can be displayed together or individually.
Oil on canvas