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May Levin '24
Photo series capturing California’s landscapes and the impacts of human intervention through 35mm film.
Link to Website
2020
Analog Film
By May Levin '24
Seeing the majestic elephants in Kenya was one of my favorite memories from my trip, and I loved depicting the different textures of the landscape.
2016
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
2019
Photograph of Man in Paris
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.
2018
Photography
A sculpture paying homage to the queer community and culture. Delicate like a flower, yet distinct like an explosion. Trans bodies at the center.
2021
Wood Sculpture
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
Rendering of a modern jazz pavilion, referencing the visual skeleton chord structure of jazz compositions.
Digital Rendering
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
Girl meets whale.
Digital Illustration
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
Photograph
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
monotype on paper
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
2024
Oil on Canvas
India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.
Enamel Paint
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
Digital Collage
Western media creates unrealistic expectations of perfection in avocados. In this painting, I seek to challenge and redefine avocado beauty standards.
Oil on canvas
Continuation of After Class Hours.
This work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
I wanted to depict the endless possibilities of this world; the one we are so used to taking for granted.
Acrylic on canvas