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CSRE 2024 @malavika.kannan
The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.
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2021
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.
2018
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Our limbs perform so many tasks yet we rarely take a moment to recognize the inner workings that make these movements possible.
2019
Acrylic tube, yarn, metal hardware, wood, epoxy resin
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
2022
Acrylic paint on canvas
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
ink on paper, collage
Fog drapes over the breathtaking mountain tops and diffuses across the road of Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, creating a sense of quietude.
Acrylic on Canvas
This work is about rupture and disruption, whether environmental, familial, or linguistic. I wanted to think visually about over-saturation.
2020
India Ink on Paper
A collage made from mind media upon reflection of a quarter of studying the classics in Stanford’s freshman SLE residential program.
Mixed Media/Collage
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
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
2023
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
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.
Oil Paint on Canvas
This is the moment when the smallest to the biggest invisibilities came to life, and unity in faith and science was apparent.
2016
Wax Pastel on Wood
Mimicking the beauty of bioluminescence.
Digital Photography
My piece comments on the movement of youth in Mexico towards narco culture and the dire implications it has for more traditional aspects the culture.
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
Watercolor
This drawing is a representation of a fractal called a Julia set, which has been rendered out of plants and other organic elements.
Markers on paper
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
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.
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
Graphite and watercolor on paper