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Brandi Ransom '23
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
2020
Acrylic on Canvas
By Brandi Ransom '23
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
2019
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
Location: Law School terrace
Digital Illustration
I wanted to render a tree during a vibrant morning on The Farm from a design perspective.
2016
Ink Resist
This is a collective of poems written while contemplating the relationship between the natural, humans, death, continuity, carnage, and hope. Link to Artwork
2023
Poetry
This drawing shows the harsh lines of a cityscape being consumed by organic forms, suggesting that, try as we might, we cannot overpower nature.
2017
Ink on Paper
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
2021
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
Photograph
A commentary on the fifth stage of grief: acceptance.
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Link to Website
Short Film
My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Oil paint on canvas
While at SFMOMA with Stanford’s ITALIC program, I created this self-portrait to explore the merging of technology with my image of self.
A watercolor painting of Stanford Campus
Acrylic Painting
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
Rendering of a modern jazz pavilion, referencing the visual skeleton chord structure of jazz compositions.
2018
Digital Rendering
My family, despite being cramped in a bungalow room that was our home, share warmth and happiness beyond understanding.
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
Oil on canvas
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
Photograph/Scanned Image
This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.
acrylic on canvas
A sense of colorful peace
painting on computer