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Film & Media Studies 2025 @tssimone
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.
2020
Acrylic on canvas
This self-portrait draws on the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe that I, as a latina, have a deeply personal, non-religious, relationship with.
2018
Oil Paint on Canvas
This 3D, interactive piece represents my relationship with my immigrant other due to the shifting pressures of assimilation.
Link to Website
2023
Interactive 3D animation installation
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
2019
Photograph
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
2021
Projection Installation
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
2016
Digital Visual Art
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.
Photography
This piece looks into the intersection of queerness and religion in the age of the internet and digital upbringing.
2022
Interactive Digital Work
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
Photoshop
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
This is a collective of poems written while contemplating the relationship between the natural, humans, death, continuity, carnage, and hope. Link to Artwork
Poetry
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
2017
A ghostly woman draped in a silk shawl and pearls.
Charcoal
Representation of an Asian woman navigating a worldwide pandemic, situated in the centre of racial prejudice, capitalism, & social media connectivity.
Scanned magazine collage, colour pencils, and pen on Sketchbook
My family, despite being cramped in a bungalow room that was our home, share warmth and happiness beyond understanding.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.
2015
Mixed Media
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
Acrylic paint on canvas
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
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.
acrylic on canvas