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Jianna So '22
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
Link to Website
2021
Projection Installation
By Jianna So '22
Taken in Alberta, Canada. My hope is not to showcase landscapes but to acknowledge that Earth’s beauty surrounds us.
2017
Photograph
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
2022
Watercolor
Roses bloom from her cuts.
2018
Photoshop
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
2023
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
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
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
Digital photography prints
Commenting on our smallness in comparison to all we have to face – be it a pandemic, the vastness of the ocean, or history. Our smallness is humbling
2020
acrylic on cardboard
A faceless woman in a room of South Vietnamese soldiers
Graphite on Paper
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
Laser Cut Birchwood
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
2015
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
My mother in her monthly kimchi-making ritual, a food that I learned to take pride in despite being initially ashamed of it.
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
This piece explores duality in behavior: relaxing the tongue can provide a positive experience during kissing, but can prove deadly with sleep apnea. Link to Artwork
Writing
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
Mount Daly in Snowmass, Colorado
Gouache paint on watercolor paper
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
Photography
This painting was an exercise to try and use simple, yet bold brushstrokes to capture the essence of the moment.
Oil paint on canvas
This means “my cabbage” in Russian, and the word also means “money”. This was inspired by a photo from r/peopleofwalmart.
Digital Art