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Psychology 2025 @zhang.rui_hua
Girl meets whale.
2017
Digital Illustration
Photo series capturing California’s landscapes and the impacts of human intervention through 35mm film.
Link to Website
2020
Analog Film
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
I catch lightning bugs, flitting moments often overlooked, and bring attention to them, so that they might spark a lightbulb in the minds of others.
2021
MultiMedia(Charcoal and Colored Pencil)
Representation of an Asian woman navigating a worldwide pandemic, situated in the centre of racial prejudice, capitalism, & social media connectivity.
Scanned magazine collage, colour pencils, and pen on Sketchbook
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
2019
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
This poem is dedicated to street children in Andhra Pradesh, India, who continue to face extraordinary barriers in education, health, and security. Link to Artwork
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Inspired by a trip to explore the nature preserves in Mass Landing, CA, this art showcases two curlew birds looking for food in the shallow waters.
Watercolor and Pencil
My mother in her monthly kimchi-making ritual, a food that I learned to take pride in despite being initially ashamed of it.
Acrylic 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
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
Photograph of Man in Paris
This piece is a manifestation of the growth and maturity, both physically and mentally, found in adolescence. It mimics the flowering of youth.
Photograph of a physical collage (paper, printed image)
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
2023
Oil on wood panel
These works were primarily crafted from fashion, science, and interior design magazines ranging from the early 90s to present.
Collage, ink pen
A gray tabby cat with timeless, marble-like eyes filled with stories to tell and lessons to share sits near a bush, encapsulating the spirit of Paris.
Colored Pencil
A piece set on a quiet, sunny afternoon in Northeast Italy. Used a reference.
Colored Pencil on Paper
Giant ladle meant to represent heaven, a room where everyone figured out that to feed themselves, they have to feed each other. + Harley Quinn’s bat
Wood sculpture, Metal Sculpture. Can also display photos attached instead
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
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood sculpture
Light fluctuations through stained glass is always beautiful and ethereal at different times of day.
2025
Photograph of the Stanford Memorial Church