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Khuyen Le '21
These photos will never be published in a journalistic publication – familiar scenes on campus but different, the other side of palm tree paradise?
2018
Photograph of campus scenes
By Khuyen Le '21
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.
2021
Oil Paint on Canvas
Pair of multimaterial CNC dragonflies (brass, copper, aluminum, steel). The dragonflies explore age and rebirth through corrosion.
2024
Sculpture
This is the moment when the smallest to the biggest invisibilities came to life, and unity in faith and science was apparent.
2016
Wax Pastel on Wood
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
Photograph of Man in Paris
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
It is difficult for humans to accept their own flaws and imperfections. This is a self-portrait displaying my many different tones and personalities.
2017
Acrylic on Paper
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
Photograph/Scanned Image
My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
Oil on Canvas
Abstract photography with the goal of rendering mundane objects unrecognizable.
Photography
A self-portrait composed of identity objects: rings from my mother, the teapot on my coffee table, the graphic on my favorite t-shirt, etc.
2020
Digital Collage
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
This drawing was an attempt to capture my feelings about Stanford: an intimidating fortress of possibilities.
Markers on paper
A portrait of a good dog.
Two girls, Cloud and Moon, are safe in space.
Photoshop
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
Link to Website
2023
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
Oil paint on found wood
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
Acrylic on Canvas
Sea Glass is a poem I wrote in high school about fearing going to college. I transformed it into a book with watercolor paintings and text designs.
Art book