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Weilai Yu '22
The Countour of White Sands NP
2023
Photograph
By Weilai Yu '22
This song is a unique take on John Coltrane’s ‘Impressions’ in terms of instrumentation, style, and genre.
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2016
Guitar recording with electronic drums and synths
My artwork is a sonnet in which two stars reminisce about Earth. Link to Artwork
Poem
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
Isolation, fear, and uncertainty are themes that come up more in our lives, seen through nighttime photos taken in the woods.
2020
These collages were created from material gathered from a variety of found sources—primarily Life, National Geographic, and Time magazines.
Collage & ink pen
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
2017
Oil Paint on Canvas
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
colored pencil, poetry
This painting speaks to how beauty lies in impermanence, contrasting eternal mountains and passing mist.
ink on rice paper; poetry
A portrayal of the death of Chaos as depicted in the Zhuangzi, who expired after Shu and Hu bored a new hole into him each day for seven days.
2015
Digital Visual Art
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.
Acrylic on canvas
Mice own your belongings at night.
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
Vero is a UG2 custodial worker on campus who I tutor through habla. I hoped to display her as I have grown to know her: strong and compelling.
2018
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
This symbolizes unity, being made by members of the Black Community. South African word, Umbutu, translates to togetherness or “I am because we are”
Acrylic on Paper
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood Sculpture
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
This is a painting I did for the Congressional Art Competition. The painting is of my mother’s horse JR on my last ride on him before he died.
2014
Acrylic on canvas 24″x 24″
I took this photo at the Palo Alto Caltrain station in the fall. I used black ink and a black and white filter to provide an “outside of time” look.
Digital Photograph
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood sculpture
*sixth photograph of Hidden Gems series
2019
Series of Photographs