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Symbolic Systems 2026 @tracyywei
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This is a picture a created from 40 raw pictures I took of the same fruit cup. Compiling all 40 images into one allowed me to show everything in focus
2018
Digital Photograph
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
2017
Laser Cut Birchwood
“Ritual” is an unfinished game prototype that is one piece of a meta-narrative that unfolds as the viewer explores the file directory containing it.
Link to Website
2020
Interactive narrative horror game/file explorer experience
A gray tabby cat with timeless, marble-like eyes filled with stories to tell and lessons to share sits near a bush, encapsulating the spirit of Paris.
2019
Colored Pencil
Location: Main Quad
Digital Illustration
This piece depicts how the new digital, photo-sharing era fetishizes Asian women against their will, especially in their traditional attire.
2022
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Oil paint on canvas
Original cover art for the Stanford Daily’s Vol. 257 autumn quarter issue.
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Short Film
This work is made with acrylic on campus in addition to found paper items, medical textbooks, and other materials.
Acrylic paint and multimedia on canvas
Colorful shapes of San Francisco buildings are highlighted by a bright sunny day.
Series highlighting experiences with environmental change, connection to place, and emotional displacement by collaging satellite maps with portraits.
Photography/digital collage
This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.
2016
acrylic on canvas
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
Photograph
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
Oil Paint on Canvas
This series was taken at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion.
Series of Photographs
This is a surreal meditation on nature’s comforting power as a sanctuary for people in need of healing.
Pencil on paper
A ghostly woman draped in a silk shawl and pearls.
Charcoal
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.