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Leela Mahajan '25
Mount Daly in Snowmass, Colorado
2022
Gouache paint on watercolor paper
By Leela Mahajan '25
Princess Going Digital considers queer girlhood on the playground of the laptop screen, a site for unapologetic self-documentation and portraiture.
2023
Gouache on Paper
Inspired by a trip to explore the nature preserves in Mass Landing, CA, this art showcases two curlew birds looking for food in the shallow waters.
2017
Watercolor and Pencil
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
2019
Oil Paint on Canvas
I painted a face digitally, and I like frames, angels, and rocket ships.
2020
Digital Art
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood sculpture
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
2018
Photograph of Landscape
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
Light fluctuations through stained glass is always beautiful and ethereal at different times of day.
2025
Photograph of the Stanford Memorial Church
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
Wood sculpture, Metal Sculpture. Can also display photos attached instead
A commentary on the fifth stage of grief: acceptance.
2021
Acrylic on Canvas
A cat in a Japanese restaurant.
3D computer graphics
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
2024
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
Graphite and watercolor on paper
The great horned owl is found at Stanford and throughout the Americas and is named for its distinctive ear tufts.
machine embroidery on cotton fabric
This 3D, interactive piece represents my relationship with my immigrant other due to the shifting pressures of assimilation.
Link to Website
Interactive 3D animation installation
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
2016
Digital Visual Art
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
Photography
This piece captures the fleeting, but golden moment of connection between the deer and the viewer. A reminder that beautiful things are fleeting.
2015
Oil on canvas
Experimentation with natural forms and light.
Photograph