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Weilai Yu '22
The Countour of White Sands NP
2023
Photograph
By Weilai Yu '22
These are part of an ongoing series of portraits of people I met in passing. They can be displayed together or individually.
2018
Oil on canvas
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
2019
ink on paper, collage
This photography series depicts the four indigenous Khmer women at Stanford, invisibility, and the consequent strong community we formed.
Link to Website
2020
Photography Series
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
Oil paint on canvas
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2022
Watercolor on Paper
These photos will never be published in a journalistic publication – familiar scenes on campus but different, the other side of palm tree paradise?
Photograph of campus scenes
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
2015
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Quad is always changing amazingly.
2017
Photo
This was a fun illustration that I polished up for International Day of the Girl this year (October 11)!
2016
Digital art
Lush layers of volanoes, forest fires, tsunamis are interwoven with snarling dogs, invoking chaotic and powerful forces of nature. 30″ x 40″.
Oil paint and thread on canvas
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
An exploration of the intergenerational and varied manifestations of Japanese internment on the self, the body, the family, and language.
acrylic and mixed media
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
Acrylic paint on canvas
This piece is an abstract self-portrait linking the internal self and the body to the collective human consciousness.
3D animation (Blender)
A fun, surreal piece exploring themes related to the modern food industry.
2014
A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.
2021
Photography
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
Digital painting
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Short Film
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
Oil Paint on Canvas