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Laia Bent '25
This piece is an abstract self-portrait linking the internal self and the body to the collective human consciousness.
2022
3D animation (Blender)
By Laia Bent '25
February is a gray month, but these flowers bloomed anyway. Link to Artwork
2024
sublimation print on synthetic blue satin
A collage with the background of a digital re-illustration of Hokusai’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa to portray our poor disregard and care of Earth.
2019
Digital illustration and collage
I captured this while camping in Colorado. Upside down the sunrise reflected in the mist covered water reminded me of Earth’s curvature from space.
2015
Digital Photograph
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
My mother in her monthly kimchi-making ritual, a food that I learned to take pride in despite being initially ashamed of it.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Cool portrait of girl trying to keep in her tears.
2018
Photoshop
This self portrait depicts how your initial view of the world glitches, or shatters as different experiences come with growing up.
Colored pencil
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
2017
Digital Collage
My piece comments on the movement of youth in Mexico towards narco culture and the dire implications it has for more traditional aspects the culture.
This is a painting of inception as an artist at the Louvre Museum recreates “The Death of Sardanapalus” by Delacroix, a little boy looking up in awe.
2021
Acrylic on Canvas
BEAM Stanford-related photos
Digital photographs
Anatomy of the Vogue is a portraiture study of clinical anatomy that bridges human and corpse through a play on the fashion industry.
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2016
Colored Pencil
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi around her as they mesh together following the fish’s flow.
Oil Paint on Canvas
This piece is a manifestation of the growth and maturity, both physically and mentally, found in adolescence. It mimics the flowering of youth.
Photograph of a physical collage (paper, printed image)
Warm summer portrait of girl reading.
This is a “still life” of the fish market at my local Chinese grocery store. It is a wet, slimy, strange, intimidating, and magnificent place.
2023
Photojournalistic exploration of the human impact of rhino poaching in South Africa – done in Prof Sue McConnell’s overseas seminar in Summer 2016.
Photographs
A sculpture paying homage to the queer community and culture. Delicate like a flower, yet distinct like an explosion. Trans bodies at the center.
Wood Sculpture
This work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
Oil on Canvas
These small paintings were quick, gestural sketches that explore the beauty of the feminine form.
Oil on canvas