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Leela Mahajan '25
Mount Daly in Snowmass, Colorado
2022
Gouache paint on watercolor paper
By Leela Mahajan '25
Observing simple, everyday practices in a new country and being dumbfounded by them led me to write this piece on everyday norms and practices here Link to Artwork
Poetry
Winter 2017, I wrote my first song, ‘Something You Should Know’. After working on the lyrics, production and recording for two years here it is!
Link to Website
2019
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
An ode to a few of many meaningful moments shared with friends over a cafe drink – Coffee at Peet’s, Chai by Meyer Green, and Matcha over Zoom.
2024
Gouache on Paper
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
Oil paint on panel
This is a painting I did for the Congressional Art Competition. The painting is of my mother’s horse JR on my last ride on him before he died.
2014
Acrylic on canvas 24″x 24″
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These would represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
A self portrait done in the style of the Old Masters.
Oil Paint on Canvas
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
Photograph
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
2018
Photoshop
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
2023
Oil on wood panel
I created this piece in order to show a city full of life in contrast to one that is merely an outline.
2016
Acrylic on Paper
This piece was made the week before quarantine when everything was uncertain and the weight of not knowing what was to come next hung over our heads.
2020
Boulder & Rope
Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.
Digital Photographs
Kumari, the living Goddess of Nepal, is not allowed to speak to those who worship her, yet her glowing eyes depict that she has so much to tell us.
Graphite
This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
Water Color on Paper
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
Video Art (with sound)
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
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
Digital painting
An exploration of nature’s healing power as an avenue for escapism and introspection.
Ballpoint and pencil on paper