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Katie Han '23
BEAM Stanford-related photos
2019
Digital photographs
By Katie Han '23
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Link to Website
2021
Short Film
Serenity from within results from letting go.
2014
Watercolor
This work is based off of a found photo archive of World War I era battle photographs. It is from a series that investigates the role of the soldier.
2016
Acrylic, charcoal, and india ink on paper
Isolation, fear, and uncertainty are themes that come up more in our lives, seen through nighttime photos taken in the woods.
2020
Photography
Through the intimacy and vulnerability of sleep, I convey my boyfriend’s personality, embodied presence, and imprint – literally and metaphorically.
2022
Oil on canvas
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
Acrylic on canvas
This work is about rupture and disruption, whether environmental, familial, or linguistic. I wanted to think visually about over-saturation.
India Ink on Paper
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
Giant ladle meant to represent heaven, a room where everyone figured out that to feed themselves, they have to feed each other. + Harley Quinn’s bat
2023
Wood sculpture, Metal Sculpture. Can also display photos attached instead
A surreal portrayal of the cost of modern designer fashion culture.
2015
Scratchboard
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
Oil on Canvas
Not sure if this counts, but I created a Stanford logo made from many smaller photos. I can make another one, from more interesting photos.
Digital Photograph
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
Video edited from found footage reflecting on the repetition, absurdity, and futility of everyday life. Duration: 05:05
2018
Video Art
v.c.a – an ongoing project and exploration of visual communication through abstraction
Graphic Design
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Continuation of After Class Hours.
Digital Illustration
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
Abstract photography with the goal of rendering mundane objects unrecognizable.