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Weilai Yu '22
The Countour of White Sands NP
2023
Photograph
By Weilai Yu '22
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
2016
Digital Visual Art
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
This piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
This piece was inspired by the many rooftop cafes and stunning views of the Bosphorus River while I was exploring Istanbul on a summer vacation.
2017
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
A series of photo edits of everyday moments at Stanford.
Digital Art
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2022
Watercolor on Paper
This work is made with acrylic on campus in addition to found paper items, medical textbooks, and other materials.
2018
Acrylic paint and multimedia on canvas
This is about alienation and emotional expression as a stone, cold figure looks blankly to a wall of artificial expressions in a room.
2021
Digital 3D Render
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Oil paint on canvas
This piece is a manipulated photograph printed on metal.
2019
Mixed Media on Metal
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
Oil Paint on Canvas
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
Pen and Marker
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
Digital photography prints
This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.
acrylic 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.
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Colored Pencil
The feet of my former roommate are greeted by the warm light that streams in through the blinds.
Oil on canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
These three prints depict tide pool scenes in Moss Beach, CA. They are part of a series, “From Puddles to Pools: A Showcase of Marine Invertebrates.”
2024
Sea Slug is a woodcut and the other two are etchings.
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
Photograph/Scanned Image
This is a “still life” of the fish market at my local Chinese grocery store. It is a wet, slimy, strange, intimidating, and magnificent place.
Acrylic on Canvas