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Sophia Lu '19
Serenity from within results from letting go.
2014
Watercolor
By Sophia Lu '19
This is a self portrait examining the complex nature of identity through both realistic forms and abstract shapes.
2016
Acrylic on Canvas
Originally meant as a study of diffused light in a “nocturne” scene, this piece is a take on portraiture, figures, and landscape in one.
2020
Oil Paint on Canvas
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
In Guam, an invasive species, the rhinoceros beetle, kills many of the island’s trees. I collage over images of trees to meditate on this loss.
Digital inkjet print
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
2019
Photograph
I painted one piece for each type of binaural beat to test the hypothesis, “distinct beat = distinct effect.” Conclusion? It didn’t really pan out.
Watercolor on Paper
Giant ladle meant to represent heaven, a room where everyone figured out that to feed themselves, they have to feed each other. + Harley Quinn’s bat
2023
Wood sculpture, Metal Sculpture. Can also display photos attached instead
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
Commenting on our smallness in comparison to all we have to face – be it a pandemic, the vastness of the ocean, or history. Our smallness is humbling
acrylic on cardboard
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
Link to Website
2024
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
2017
Environmental Photographs
This work is a triptych of body parts from several acclaimed works by Renaissance artists. The famous works are reimagined in a modern style.
2018
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard with numbers juxtaposing letters, emphasizing how some things are not meant to be rushed and will happen in time.
An ode to a few of many meaningful moments shared with friends over a cafe drink – Coffee at Peet’s, Chai by Meyer Green, and Matcha over Zoom.
Gouache on Paper
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
gouache (two images combined digitally)
This self portrait addresses my invisible disability and the words around me are a mix of medical statements and emotional entries from my journal.
Graphite on Paper
This work is based off of a found photo archive of World War I era battle photographs. It is from a series that investigates the role of the soldier.
Acrylic, charcoal, and india ink on paper
Vero is a UG2 custodial worker on campus who I tutor through habla. I hoped to display her as I have grown to know her: strong and compelling.
While at SFMOMA with Stanford’s ITALIC program, I created this self-portrait to explore the merging of technology with my image of self.
Observing simple, everyday practices in a new country and being dumbfounded by them led me to write this piece on everyday norms and practices here Link to Artwork
2022
Poetry