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Undeclared 2020 @helenliuphotography
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
2019
Oil on Canvas
Released some restless energy onto paper with this portrait sketch.
2020
Graphite on Paper
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 sculpture paying homage to the queer community and culture. Delicate like a flower, yet distinct like an explosion. Trans bodies at the center.
2021
Wood Sculpture
Body painting is used to simulate the patient-doctor relationship. Imagery is inspired by anatomy and the model’s bodily experiences.
Link to Website
Body Paint on Skin
This is about alienation and emotional expression as a stone, cold figure looks blankly to a wall of artificial expressions in a room.
Digital 3D Render
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.
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
Colorful shapes of San Francisco buildings are highlighted by a bright sunny day.
2022
Oil paint on canvas
A cat in a Japanese restaurant.
3D computer graphics
This work showcases cultural connection and displacement. The food that should be on your table is now hung on a wall, commemorated but inaccessible.
2024
Monoprints on food wrapping paper, laser cut stencils
Our hands – bridges, sinewy tendons & arteries – among the last parts dissected because of their distinctly human character.
2015
Photography; De-identified photo taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
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
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
2018
Photoshop
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Location: Main Quad
Digital Illustration
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
Photograph
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
Oil paint on found wood
I painted a face digitally, and I like frames, angels, and rocket ships.
Digital Art
India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.
2017
Enamel Paint