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Symbolic Systems 2019 @niusteph
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
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2019
Photography
Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.
2020
Digital Illustration
The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.
2021
This project was done on a ten-day summer trip to my family’s ranch.
2017
Environmental Photographs
Past lovers who couldn’t be together grieve over “what was” and “what could have been”, learning each other’s rhythms tenderly for the first time.
2024
Oil on Canvas
I wanted to render a tree during a vibrant morning on The Farm from a design perspective.
2016
Ink Resist
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
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
A reflection of my Korean heritage in the new digital age, and how technology distorts my self-perception and my relationship with my culture.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.
This 3D, interactive piece represents my relationship with my immigrant other due to the shifting pressures of assimilation.
2023
Interactive 3D animation installation
I made this painting with an attempt to capture the vibrant feeling of spring and awakening. It’s a reminder of the beauty and color of life!
2014
Oil on canvas
While at SFMOMA with Stanford’s ITALIC program, I created this self-portrait to explore the merging of technology with my image of self.
Photograph
This self portrait depicts how your initial view of the world glitches, or shatters as different experiences come with growing up.
Colored pencil
Inspired by the strange reflection of an empty glass sitting on a table, this is a piece is about power and powerlessness—control and lack of it.
Acrylic on canvas
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.
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
A classic San Francisco house is bathed in orange light at sunset.
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.
2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
Released some restless energy onto paper with this portrait sketch.
Graphite on Paper