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Han Dao '26
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
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2024
Video Art
By Han Dao '26
This piece emerged from a desire to merge figurative and abstract forms. (there are some flaws in the .jpg, if needed I can retake pictures)
2015
Acrylic on Canvas
Whales and dolphins were my favorite animals when I was younger. In this piece, dark shadows contrasted by blue hues highlight that childhood bond.
2018
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
2016
Digital Visual Art
Episode 1 of an upcoming mystery micro-film series
2022
Short Film
This piece was inspired by the many rooftop cafes and stunning views of the Bosphorus River while I was exploring Istanbul on a summer vacation.
2017
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
2019
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
2023
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
A cat in a Japanese restaurant.
3D computer graphics
I was inspired by the stillness of this moment, the warm light, and the beautiful shadows created by the trees. This was based on SF Japantown.
2020
gouache on paper
A faceless woman in a room of South Vietnamese soldiers
Graphite on Paper
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
Oil Paint on Canvas
An abstract piece with a collage element, created from splicing a collaborative image. It invokes a sense of depth and the condensation of space.
Oil paint and paper on paper
The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.
2021
Photography
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
Oil on Canvas
Moving away from home in a new country has given me independence, and also comes with its responsibilities. This piece was an outburst of this feeling Link to Artwork
Poetry
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 painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Acrylic paint on canvas
Inspired by individuality and body empowerment. Work focuses on abstraction of human form and color.
Acrylic on canvas
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
Photoshop