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Anna Lai '19
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
2016
Watercolor
By Anna Lai '19
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
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
2018
Photoshop
A mixed-media interactive piece installed at Stanford’s annual “Frost Festival”. The piece embodies Stanford’s goals of inclusion and diversity.
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Acrylic, Spray Paint, Vinyl, Sticker on Canvas
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
Photograph of Landscape
Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.
2015
Mixed Media
Photojournalistic exploration of the human impact of rhino poaching in South Africa – done in Prof Sue McConnell’s overseas seminar in Summer 2016.
Photographs
Mount Daly in Snowmass, Colorado
2022
Gouache paint on watercolor paper
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
2020
Acrylic on Canvas
This is a theatrical self portrait. Fractured light plays off a calm, restrained figure, creating tension and a sense of impending violence. 24″ x 30″
Oil paint on canvas
A sculpture paying homage to the queer community and culture. Delicate like a flower, yet distinct like an explosion. Trans bodies at the center.
2021
Wood Sculpture
Aluminum CNC machined monstera leaf inspired bottle opener. I promise it looks better than it sounds.
2024
Sculpture
A coloring pages for people to color and de-stress:) These pages are part of my project Coloring to Cope for the COVID-19 art grant.
Digital
In Guam, an invasive species, the rhinoceros beetle, kills many of the island’s trees. I collage over images of trees to meditate on this loss.
Digital inkjet print
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.
window screens, oil paint
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
2019
Photograph
A sketched self-portrait replaced into its photographic context.
Graphite on Paper, Photograph
Isolation, fear, and uncertainty are themes that come up more in our lives, seen through nighttime photos taken in the woods.
Photography
A commentary on the fifth stage of grief: acceptance.
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
Pencil and paper