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Earth Systems 2025 @laiabent
You have pomegranate trees in your backyard, well so do I. Your family can’t afford to live in the Bay Area, well neither can mine…You’re just like me
2024
Oil on canvas
These are part of an ongoing series of portraits of people I met in passing. They can be displayed together or individually.
2018
This self portrait depicts how your initial view of the world glitches, or shatters as different experiences come with growing up.
2020
Colored pencil
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
2022
Oil paint on panel
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Acrylic paint on canvas
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
I made this piece as an exploration of how cows are perceived in different cultures, and society’s relationship to animals as a whole.
2015
Mixed Media
“David” is a 3D bust loosely based on Michelangelo’s piece of the same name. Inspired by the music video of “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits.
Blender 3D Render
Oil on Canvas
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
Acrylic on Canvas
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.
2019
Digital illustration and collage
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
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Short Film
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
2017
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
Graphite and watercolor on paper
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
I painted this painting following the death of my dog. Sourcing imagery from cheap print and Southern nostalgia, Lassie paints a scene of rebirth.
Serenity from within results from letting go.
Watercolor
Koreanthian is based on merging different architectural styles that transcends geographical, cultural, and historical differences.
Pen & Ink Drawing on Bristol Paper
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.