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Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
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2017
Environmental Photographs
By Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
This work is about rupture and disruption, whether environmental, familial, or linguistic. I wanted to think visually about over-saturation.
2020
India Ink on Paper
Location: Main Quad
Digital Illustration
Indigo mountains and a somber gray sky are reflected in the clear water of Lake Tahoe.
2022
Oil paint on canvas
Inspired by the works of Nina Katchadourian, this piece uses materials scavenged from the Stanford campus to explore the definition of “city.”
2018
Paper Maps on Cardboard
This piece highlights the importance of community and hope in the midst of a pandemic, despite physical separation from others.
Acrylic on Canvas
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
2024
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
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
Often, I find myself missing the changing of seasons. But if I just look closely, signs of autumn are all around.
2019
Nature Photography
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
This piece depicts how the new digital, photo-sharing era fetishizes Asian women against their will, especially in their traditional attire.
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
A series of photo edits of everyday moments at Stanford.
Digital Art
An abstract piece with a collage element, created from splicing a collaborative image. It invokes a sense of depth and the condensation of space.
Oil paint and paper on paper
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
2021
Short Film
The girl who depicts prosperity is looking beyond her world into one that’s suppressed by indigence, because to solve a problem you must face it.
acrylic on canvas
Taken at Baylands Nature Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a student and a community member.
Photograph
A light spring shower wakes the soul. Inspired by the Adobe MAX + Inktober 2018 October 15th Prompt: light.
Photoshop
Our limbs perform so many tasks yet we rarely take a moment to recognize the inner workings that make these movements possible.
Acrylic tube, yarn, metal hardware, wood, epoxy resin
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Two girls, Cloud and Moon, are safe in space.
This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”
Vector drawing and photography