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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
Our limbs perform so many tasks yet we rarely take a moment to recognize the inner workings that make these movements possible.
Link to Website
2019
Acrylic tube, yarn, metal hardware, wood, epoxy resin
Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.
2020
Digital Illustration
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2018
Photo
A series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
2017
code poems
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light.
2016
Photo with artistic editing
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
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
Mimicking the beauty of bioluminescence.
Digital Photography
“Oxymoron” defies norms with the bond between a fierce girl warrior and her majestic dragon companion, embodying unity amidst contrast. Link to Artwork
2024
Watercolors and inkpen on mixed media paper
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood Sculpture
I made these photos at the abandoned Oppenheimer film set in Ghost Ranch, NM. Downwinders in NM harmed by test radiation remain uncompensated by RECA.
35mm Photography
SJC redesign – inspired by bold ‘Mod’ textiles, rooted in the London-based 1960’s ‘Mod’ fashion and music subculture centered around modern jazz.
Graphic Design and Print
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
Original cover art for the Stanford Daily’s Vol. 257 autumn quarter issue.
This series is meant to bring inspiration, energy and presence to the broader community during a difficult time of shelter-in-place and quarantine.
Acrylic gouache on Yupo Polypropylene Paper
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
2014
Pencil and paper
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.
Digital Photographs
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
2021
Short Film