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Laia Bent '25
This piece is an abstract self-portrait linking the internal self and the body to the collective human consciousness.
2022
3D animation (Blender)
By Laia Bent '25
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
2019
Oil on canvas
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
Link to Website
2017
Environmental Photographs
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
2020
Photography
An ongoing series attempting to create an emotive instant through color theory principles
Acrylic on Canvas
Photojournalistic exploration of the human impact of rhino poaching in South Africa – done in Prof Sue McConnell’s overseas seminar in Summer 2016.
2016
Photographs
This piece tackles the topic of invisible disabilities and the stigma that many invisibly disabled people, myself included, face.
2018
Photograph on Canvas, Embroidery
This piece depicts a fictionalized memory of my grandfather, who I only knew through his woven hats and birds passed down through my family.
2023
Oil Paint on Canvas
I painted this painting following the death of my dog. Sourcing imagery from cheap print and Southern nostalgia, Lassie paints a scene of rebirth.
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
The great horned owl is found at Stanford and throughout the Americas and is named for its distinctive ear tufts.
machine embroidery on cotton fabric
This piece depicts how TikTok primarily portrays a fetishized version of Asian women, leading to an uncertain digital future of complicated dynamics.
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
You have pomegranate trees in your backyard, well so do I. Your family can’t afford to live in the Bay Area, well neither can mine…You’re just like me
2024
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
Rendering of a modern jazz pavilion, referencing the visual skeleton chord structure of jazz compositions.
Digital Rendering
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
A light spring shower wakes the soul. Inspired by the Adobe MAX + Inktober 2018 October 15th Prompt: light.
Photoshop
A commentary on the fifth stage of grief: acceptance.
2021
Episode 1 of an upcoming mystery micro-film series
Short Film
A sense of colorful peace
painting on computer