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Lining Sun '18
This is the place no one would want to miss.
2017
Photo
By Lining Sun '18
This is a painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
2022
Oil Paint on Canvas
An abstract perspective of a cityscape.
2021
Water Color on Paper
This solo play premiered in Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and made its US debut in New York City where I won the award for ‘Best Emerging Actor’
Link to Website
2023
Photograph of Performance (solo play)
The sky disc’s dynamic effects on viewing the sky were photographically documented over the course of a sunrise and a sunset.
Installation: printed plastic sheeting (pictorico), fishing wire
Growing up in Iran taught me that limitation breed creativity. I tried to embody the same lesson by using alternative printing methods in the darkroom
2016
Black & white photography
Lush layers of volanoes, forest fires, tsunamis are interwoven with snarling dogs, invoking chaotic and powerful forces of nature. 30″ x 40″.
2018
Oil paint and thread on canvas
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
2024
Video Art
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
2020
Photograph
Hide my anger behind flowers // my anxiety behind moths // my sadness behind â–“â–“â–“
Photoshop
Exploring the weary determination of an aged subject shouldering generational burdens. Experimented with earthier and darker tones, deconstruction, an
The girl who depicts prosperity is looking beyond her world into one that’s suppressed by indigence, because to solve a problem you must face it.
acrylic on canvas
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
Oil paint on panel
The mural shows Nangeli – an Ezhava Dalit woman, who had cut off her one breast in protest against the breast tax system in Travancore, Kerala.
Mural
My artwork is a sonnet in which two stars reminisce about Earth. Link to Artwork
Poem
In a pre-show photoshoot for my roommate’s student classical Indian dance ensemble, Noopur, she “breaks character” during a pose.
I catch lightning bugs, flitting moments often overlooked, and bring attention to them, so that they might spark a lightbulb in the minds of others.
MultiMedia(Charcoal and Colored Pencil)
This series is meant to bring inspiration, energy and presence to the broader community during a difficult time of shelter-in-place and quarantine.
Acrylic gouache on Yupo Polypropylene Paper
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
Body painting is used to simulate the patient-doctor relationship. Imagery is inspired by anatomy and the model’s bodily experiences.
Body Paint on Skin
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
Graphite and watercolor on paper