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Cairo Mo '20
This is a theatrical self portrait. Fractured light plays off a calm, restrained figure, creating tension and a sense of impending violence. 24″ x 30″
2018
Oil paint on canvas
By Cairo Mo '20
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
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
Digital painting
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard, the numbers juxtaposing the letters and a soft, glowing gleam reflecting across its surface.
2019
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
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song / soundscape
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
monotype on paper
I made these photos at the abandoned Oppenheimer film set in Ghost Ranch, NM. Downwinders in NM harmed by test radiation remain uncompensated by RECA.
2023
35mm Photography
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
2024
Oil on Canvas
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
Anatomy of the Vogue is a portraiture study of clinical anatomy that bridges human and corpse through a play on the fashion industry.
2016
Colored Pencil
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
Video Art (with sound)
I wanted to render a tree during a vibrant morning on The Farm from a design perspective.
Ink Resist
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
2022
Oil paint on panel
Colorful shapes of San Francisco buildings are highlighted by a bright sunny day.
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
Photography
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Watercolor on Paper
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
ink on paper, collage
The central focus of these prints is the vibrant potato starch granule depicted under polarized light and how its shape and colors are manipulated.
Algorithmic Art made with Processing
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
“David” is a 3D bust loosely based on Michelangelo’s piece of the same name. Inspired by the music video of “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits.
Blender 3D Render
This is a self portrait examining the complex nature of identity through both realistic forms and abstract shapes.