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Earth Systems 2025 @laiabent
This work is a triptych of body parts from several acclaimed works by Renaissance artists. The famous works are reimagined in a modern style.
2018
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
2015
Mixed Media
February is a gray month, but these flowers bloomed anyway. Link to Artwork
2024
sublimation print on synthetic blue satin
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
2019
Oil on Canvas
A series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
Link to Website
2017
code poems
v.c.a – an ongoing project and exploration of visual communication through abstraction
2016
Graphic Design
I made this piece as an exploration of how cows are perceived in different cultures, and society’s relationship to animals as a whole.
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
2022
Acrylic on canvas
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
Digital photography prints
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
Photography
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
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These would represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
A commentary on the fifth stage of grief: acceptance.
2021
Acrylic on Canvas
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
These two small paintings feature a whimsical image that explores feminine sexuality, inspired by the flesh-like quality of oil paint.
oil on cnavs
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
Photograph
At Bay is a student-created web series about the launch of a Stanford startup that goes horribly, horribly wrong.
Still from a web series
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
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature