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Lily Thai '27
Pinned parts of a traditional Vietnamese dress cut to my measurements. Through deconstruction, functionality and familiarity are lost.
2023
Charcoal and Mixed Media on Salvaged Cotton and Organza
By Lily Thai '27
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
2016
Watercolor
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
2019
Photograph/Scanned Image
This piece highlights the importance of community and hope in the midst of a pandemic, despite physical separation from others.
2020
Acrylic on Canvas
I painted a woman who is battered but is pushing herself back up with resiliency. She sends a message of hope to those facing difficulties.
2017
acrylic on wood
My family, despite being cramped in a bungalow room that was our home, share warmth and happiness beyond understanding.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This piece explores duality in behavior: relaxing the tongue can provide a positive experience during kissing, but can prove deadly with sleep apnea. Link to Artwork
2022
Writing
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Watercolor on Paper
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
Oil on Canvas
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
2018
Photoshop
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
This piece is a manipulated photograph printed on metal.
Mixed Media on Metal
This piece tackles the topic of invisible disabilities and the stigma that many invisibly disabled people, myself included, face.
Photograph on Canvas, Embroidery
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
2024
A classic San Francisco house is bathed in orange light at sunset.
Oil paint on panel
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
Photograph
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
This is the moment when the smallest to the biggest invisibilities came to life, and unity in faith and science was apparent.
Wax Pastel on Wood
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
Pen and Marker
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
Oil paint on found wood