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Earth Systems 2025 @laiabent
I was looking for a subject I could depict using my new ink pens, and this sculpture was perfect because it included lots of shadows and some colors.
2016
Ink Pen
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
2017
Digital Collage
Body painting is used to simulate the patient-doctor relationship. Imagery is inspired by anatomy and the model’s bodily experiences.
Link to Website
2020
Body Paint on Skin
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.
2018
Charcoal, white chalk on toned paper
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.
2021
Oil Paint on Canvas
The setting sun casts a firey light onto the skyline of San Francisco, with Coit Tower visible over the hills of the city.
2022
Oil paint on canvas
The sky disc’s dynamic effects on viewing the sky were photographically documented over the course of a sunrise and a sunset.
Installation: printed plastic sheeting (pictorico), fishing wire
A self portrait done in the style of the Old Masters.
2014
How do you heal after being discarded?
Acrylic on Canvas
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
Acrylic on canvas
This drawing for me is meant to capture some of the dynamic processes I have witnesses in the Cosmos.
Watercolor and black ink
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
An exploration of the intergenerational and varied manifestations of Japanese internment on the self, the body, the family, and language.
acrylic and mixed media
*sixth photograph of Hidden Gems series
2019
Series of Photographs
A sense of colorful peace
painting on computer
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
An exploration of nature’s healing power as an avenue for escapism and introspection.
Ballpoint and pencil on paper
This image plays with scale, texture, and the physicality of water.
Color Film
A woman in dark clothing sits on the graffitied ruins of Sutro Baths, staring into the soft, ethereal waves illuminated by warm sunlight.
Experimentation with natural forms and light.
Photograph