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Vedika Kanchan '23
“I’ve loved you since the day I met you”
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
By Vedika Kanchan '23
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
2018
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
2017
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
The mural shows Nangeli – an Ezhava Dalit woman, who had cut off her one breast in protest against the breast tax system in Travancore, Kerala.
2022
Mural
A classic San Francisco house is bathed in orange light at sunset.
Oil paint on panel
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard with numbers juxtaposing letters, emphasizing how some things are not meant to be rushed and will happen in time.
2019
Oh! The Puppet Show begins! Here I am the puppet master presenting the BOSP Poland Overseas Seminar with my puppet show I made entirely from scratch!
Link to Website
Photograph of Performance
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
monotype on paper
This photography series depicts the four indigenous Khmer women at Stanford, invisibility, and the consequent strong community we formed.
2020
Photography Series
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Acrylic paint on canvas
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.
35mm Photography
This piece was made the week before quarantine when everything was uncertain and the weight of not knowing what was to come next hung over our heads.
Boulder & Rope
The Andromeda constellation re-imagined, through drawing, through burning holes in paper; how do we impose humanity upon the stars?
2016
Charcoal on paper; flame on tracing paper
A visual exploration of ZIP, a drug currently in development used to treat PTSD by directly erasing targeted memories.
Mixed Media
The Countour of White Sands NP
Photograph
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
Photography
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. –Robert Wyland
Digital Media – Made in Procreate for Apple iPad
This is a painting I did for the Congressional Art Competition. The painting is of my mother’s horse JR on my last ride on him before he died.
2014
Acrylic on canvas 24″x 24″
Taken in Alberta, Canada. My hope is not to showcase landscapes but to acknowledge that Earth’s beauty surrounds us.
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 work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
Oil on Canvas