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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
A faceless woman in a room of South Vietnamese soldiers
2022
Graphite on Paper
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
2017
Oil Paint on Canvas
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
Seeing the majestic elephants in Kenya was one of my favorite memories from my trip, and I loved depicting the different textures of the landscape.
2016
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This drawing shows the harsh lines of a cityscape being consumed by organic forms, suggesting that, try as we might, we cannot overpower nature.
Ink on Paper
She wipes the mask off after a long day.
Photoshop
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
Lucky to witness a green Dish.
Photo
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
Originally meant as a study of diffused light in a “nocturne” scene, this piece is a take on portraiture, figures, and landscape in one.
2020
A surreal portrayal of the cost of modern designer fashion culture.
2015
Scratchboard
A self portrait done in the style of the Old Masters.
2014
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood Sculpture
This piece is an abstract self-portrait linking the internal self and the body to the collective human consciousness.
3D animation (Blender)
In a pre-show photoshoot for my roommate’s student classical Indian dance ensemble, Noopur, she “breaks character” during a pose.
A projection of water drapes over a foot, the painting interweaves the physical and digital sensation.
Oil on canvas
Night is when the imagination comes alive.
Digital Illustration
I made this piece as an exploration of how cows are perceived in different cultures, and society’s relationship to animals as a whole.
Mixed Media
Fog drapes over the breathtaking mountain tops and diffuses across the road of Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, creating a sense of quietude.
Acrylic on Canvas
Indigo mountains and a somber gray sky are reflected in the clear water of Lake Tahoe.