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Earth Systems 2025 @laiabent
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
2016
Ink Resist on Paper
I took this photograph in a forrest in Germany. I wonder what the dog is doing right now.
Link to Website
Color Film
The girl who depicts prosperity is looking beyond her world into one that’s suppressed by indigence, because to solve a problem you must face it.
2017
acrylic on canvas
I drew some random kid I found on a Youtube thumbnail. I think it was an Omeleto video.
2019
Colored Pencil on Paper, Digital
This piece is of my neighbor’s beagle, Clyde. She has two dogs, and the other is named Bonnie!
Colored pencil
I created this piece in order to show a city full of life in contrast to one that is merely an outline.
Acrylic on Paper
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
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
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I assemble impressions gathered during my time in Chavín de Huántar.
Digital Visual Art
This song is a unique take on John Coltrane’s ‘Impressions’ in terms of instrumentation, style, and genre.
Guitar recording with electronic drums and synths
This self portrait depicts the artist in self reflection. The couple gazes forward, as hidden collaged images loom behind, reminding them of the past.
2018
Acrylic and Collage on Canvas 30 x 40 in
Mice own your belongings at night.
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
2023
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
Exploring the weary determination of an aged subject shouldering generational burdens. Experimented with earthier and darker tones, deconstruction, an
2022
Oil Paint on Canvas
This is a painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
Watercolor
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
2020
song / soundscape
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
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
2021
Projection Installation