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Series highlighting experiences with environmental change, connection to place, and emotional displacement by collaging satellite maps with portraits.
2022
Photography/digital collage
By Vrinda Suresh '21
Waste Mismanagement
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.
2019
Digital illustration and collage
By Elaine Park '21
Reaching Out
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Childhood Silence
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
By Helena Zhang '22
Can you read me?
This piece tackles the topic of invisible disabilities and the stigma that many invisibly disabled people, myself included, face.
2018
Photograph on Canvas, Embroidery
By Francesca Colombo Colombo '19
I Am Home
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
2017
Oil on Canvas
By Francesca Colombo Colombo '19
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Art reveals souls in day and night.
A dynamic clash, emotions entwined,
In this vibrant realm, our spirits aligned.
2024
Digital Media – Made with Procreate for Apple iPad
By Lavinia Pedrollo '28
Maasai Warriors
I loved this photograph my mom took on our trip to Kenya, and I wanted to recreate the beautiful designs on the fabric here.
2016
Charcoal
By Angela Liu '23
SJC Logo Redesign
SJC redesign – inspired by bold ‘Mod’ textiles, rooted in the London-based 1960’s ‘Mod’ fashion and music subculture centered around modern jazz.
2016
Graphic Design and Print
By Tyler Su '20
Riven
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I assemble impressions gathered during my time in Chavín de Huántar.
2017
Digital Visual Art
By Andrew Lesh '19
Nicollette (Venice, Italy)
Stillness, the relationship between Venice’s constant landscape and its moving parts, environments of order that have witnessed extravagant change
2018
acrylic on canvas
By Vedika Kanchan '23
Sunset at Sutro Baths
A woman in dark clothing sits on the graffitied ruins of Sutro Baths, staring into the soft, ethereal waves illuminated by warm sunlight.
2022
Oil paint on canvas
By Christina Kent '22
Flames
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
By Katherine Yang '20
self – portrait
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
2018
Oil Paint on Canvas
By Esther Omole '21
Maasai Junior Warrior
Taken on a Sophomore College trip to Tanzania, a Maasai junior warrior dons the traditional post-circumcision black robes and white face paint.
2017
Photograph
By Donovan Tokuyama '20
Melting Flesh
This piece is an abstract self-portrait linking the internal self and the body to the collective human consciousness.
2022
3D animation (Blender)
By Laia Bent '25