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Undecleared 2026 @nisha.acharyaa
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
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
This painting is in honor of Ahina and all the women that spend years wishing for a day at school.
46″ x 32”
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
Link to Website
2021
Projection Installation
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
2024
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
This piece explores duality in behavior: relaxing the tongue can provide a positive experience during kissing, but can prove deadly with sleep apnea. Link to Artwork
2022
Writing
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
Oil paint on panel
This is an image of a mushroom found on a trail off Old La Honda Road. I wanted to create a mystical yet comforting feeling surrounding the mushroom.
2018
Photography
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
2019
ink on paper, collage
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
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
Laser Cut Birchwood
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
Photograph
The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.
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 study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
This means “my cabbage” in Russian, and the word also means “money”. This was inspired by a photo from r/peopleofwalmart.
Digital Art
Continuation of After Class Hours.
Digital Illustration
She wipes the mask off after a long day.
Photoshop
This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”
Vector drawing and photography