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Noah DeWald '20
Experimentation with natural forms and light.
2018
Photograph
By Noah DeWald '20
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
2019
Photograph of Man in Paris
Sky River is a digital reinterpretation of Japanese graphic designer Koichi Sato’s style based on minimalist forms and gradients.
Blender 3D render
Originally meant as a study of diffused light in a “nocturne” scene, this piece is a take on portraiture, figures, and landscape in one.
2020
Oil Paint on Canvas
I painted a woman who is battered but is pushing herself back up with resiliency. She sends a message of hope to those facing difficulties.
2017
acrylic on wood
This is a surreal meditation on nature’s comforting power as a sanctuary for people in need of healing.
2022
Pencil on paper
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
This self portrait depicts how your initial view of the world glitches, or shatters as different experiences come with growing up.
Colored pencil
This is a painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
Link to Website
2021
Projection Installation
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A process exploration of dye sublimation to print the iconic “Bliss” wallpaper of the operating system Windows XP onto constructed shutters.
Sculpture: wood, white house paint, printed acrylic sheet, venetian window structure
Using alternative black and white photography techniques, I tried to illustrate the poems of the Persian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri.
2016
Black and White photography
Inspired by the works of Nina Katchadourian, this piece uses materials scavenged from the Stanford campus to explore the definition of “city.”
Paper Maps on Cardboard
I was inspired by the stillness of this moment, the warm light, and the beautiful shadows created by the trees. This was based on SF Japantown.
gouache on paper
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Acrylic paint on canvas
Mice own your belongings at night.
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard, the numbers juxtaposing the letters and a soft, glowing gleam reflecting across its surface.
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
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
This piece tackles the topic of invisible disabilities and the stigma that many invisibly disabled people, myself included, face.
Photograph on Canvas, Embroidery