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Art Practice/Mechanical Engineering 2024 @l.songwu
Thousands of stippled dots layer on each other to create each gargoyle and rooftop, coming together to reveal the magnificent, historical spire.
2020
Pen and Ink
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.
2016
Digital Photograph
This work is about rupture and disruption, whether environmental, familial, or linguistic. I wanted to think visually about over-saturation.
India Ink on Paper
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
This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.
2022
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Location: Main Quad
2023
Digital Illustration
I captured this while camping in Colorado. Upside down the sunrise reflected in the mist covered water reminded me of Earth’s curvature from space.
2015
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
This self portrait addresses my invisible disability and the words around me are a mix of medical statements and emotional entries from my journal.
2018
Graphite on Paper
The Andromeda constellation re-imagined, through drawing, through burning holes in paper; how do we impose humanity upon the stars?
Charcoal on paper; flame on tracing 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.
Oil Paint on Canvas
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
2019
Photograph
This is a study of Auguste Rodin’s “Bust of St. John the Baptist,” in an attempt to capture the densely textured look of the original.
Charcoal, white chalk on toned paper
A collage with the background of a digital re-illustration of Hokusai’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa to portray our poor disregard and care of Earth.
Digital illustration and collage
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
monotype on paper
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
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Photography
Using alternative black and white photography techniques, I tried to illustrate the poems of the Persian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri.
Black and White photography
This work is a triptych of body parts from several acclaimed works by Renaissance artists. The famous works are reimagined in a modern style.
A process exploration of dye sublimation to print the iconic “Bliss” wallpaper of the operating system Windows XP onto constructed shutters.
2017
Sculpture: wood, white house paint, printed acrylic sheet, venetian window structure
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