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Yifei He '22
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
By Yifei He '22
A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.
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2021
Photography
Inspired by the strange reflection of an empty glass sitting on a table, this is a piece is about power and powerlessness—control and lack of it.
2020
Acrylic on canvas
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
2023
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
Location: Lathrop 24/7 Study Room
2022
Digital Illustration
This painting speaks to how beauty lies in impermanence, contrasting eternal mountains and passing mist.
ink on rice paper; poetry
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
colored pencil, poetry
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
2018
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
16 wooden chairs, each with one leg severed, tap in syncopated rhythm, puncturing through a low droning electrical hum.
Found and modified wooden chairs, custom steel hardware, dc motors, wires, solder, modified cast iron weights
Warm summer portrait of girl reading.
Photoshop
A gray tabby cat with timeless, marble-like eyes filled with stories to tell and lessons to share sits near a bush, encapsulating the spirit of Paris.
Colored Pencil
This means “my cabbage” in Russian, and the word also means “money”. This was inspired by a photo from r/peopleofwalmart.
Digital Art
This is a painting I did for the Congressional Art Competition. The painting is of my mother’s horse JR on my last ride on him before he died.
2014
Acrylic on canvas 24″x 24″
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Acrylic paint on canvas
Observing simple, everyday practices in a new country and being dumbfounded by them led me to write this piece on everyday norms and practices here Link to Artwork
Poetry
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.
MultiMedia(Charcoal and Colored Pencil)
This painting is in honor of Ahina and all the women that spend years wishing for a day at school.
2017
46″ x 32”
An ongoing series attempting to create an emotive instant through color theory principles
Acrylic on Canvas
Shriram California photos
Digital photographs
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
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
2016
Digital Visual Art