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Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
Link to Website
2017
Environmental Photographs
By Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
2020
Oil paint on canvas
I captured this while camping in Colorado. Upside down the sunrise reflected in the mist covered water reminded me of Earth’s curvature from space.
2015
Digital Photograph
The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.
2021
Photography
This work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
Oil on Canvas
BEAM Stanford-related photos
2019
Digital photographs
A self portrait done in the style of the Old Masters.
2014
Oil Paint on Canvas
A sense of colorful peace
2018
painting on computer
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
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
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I assemble impressions gathered during my time in Chavín de Huántar.
Digital Visual Art
This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
2022
Water Color on Paper
I drew some random kid I found on a Youtube thumbnail. I think it was an Omeleto video.
Colored Pencil on Paper, Digital
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light.
2016
Photo with artistic editing
This delves into the detrimental beauty standards that social media apps promote through the use of filters and algorithms (that favors symmetry).
2023
Tempera paint, cloth, alcohol markers on Canvas
This piece looks into the intersection of queerness and religion in the age of the internet and digital upbringing.
Interactive Digital Work
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
Acrylic paint on canvas
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Short Film
I wanted to render a tree during a vibrant morning on The Farm from a design perspective.
Ink Resist
The Countour of White Sands NP
Photograph
A woman in dark clothing sits on the graffitied ruins of Sutro Baths, staring into the soft, ethereal waves illuminated by warm sunlight.