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Weilai Yu '22
The Countour of White Sands NP
2023
Photograph
By Weilai Yu '22
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
2019
Oil Paint on Canvas
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
Link to Website
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
This piece depicts a fictionalized memory of my grandfather, who I only knew through his woven hats and birds passed down through my family.
every part of this earth is a surrogate for the people that helped create iteach building reflects the community that built it
2018
Acrylic on Canvas
A series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
2017
code poems
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
2021
Projection Installation
This work was featured at a solo show with New Image Art in West Hollywood. You are welcome to share any of the work on my Instagram (L.SongWu)
Oil paint on canvas
This is a collage I made featuring my favorite colors. There are bits of paper popping off of the page!
Digital Photograph of Paper Collage
The central focus of these prints is the vibrant potato starch granule depicted under polarized light and how its shape and colors are manipulated.
Algorithmic Art made with Processing
A mixed-media interactive piece installed at Stanford’s annual “Frost Festival”. The piece embodies Stanford’s goals of inclusion and diversity.
Acrylic, Spray Paint, Vinyl, Sticker on Canvas
Anatomy of the Vogue is a portraiture study of clinical anatomy that bridges human and corpse through a play on the fashion industry.
2016
Colored Pencil
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
This is a collective of poems written while contemplating the relationship between the natural, humans, death, continuity, carnage, and hope. Link to Artwork
Poetry
Inspired by the strange reflection of an empty glass sitting on a table, this is a piece is about power and powerlessness—control and lack of it.
2020
Acrylic on canvas
Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.
Digital Illustration
A watercolor painting of Stanford Campus
Acrylic Painting
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood sculpture
This 5-page word-art series explores the way emotion and memory lives in the body through experimentation with colour.
Mixed media (watercolor, charcoal pencils, pencil) on sketch paper
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo