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Weilai Yu '22
The Countour of White Sands NP
2023
Photograph
By Weilai Yu '22
Photo series capturing California’s landscapes and the impacts of human intervention through 35mm film.
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2020
Analog Film
A piece set on a quiet, sunny afternoon in Northeast Italy. Used a reference.
2018
Colored Pencil on Paper
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
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
Cool portrait of girl trying to keep in her tears.
Photoshop
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
Night is when the imagination comes alive.
Digital Illustration
Shriram California photos
Digital photographs
Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
2024
Video Art
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
Abstract photography with the goal of rendering mundane objects unrecognizable.
Photography
This is a study of Auguste Rodin’s “Bust of St. John the Baptist,” in an attempt to capture the densely textured look of the original.
Charcoal, white chalk on toned paper
This is a photo taken in the Main Quad.
“I’ve loved you since the day I met you”
Acrylic on Canvas
How do you heal after being discarded?
2021
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
Original cover art for the Stanford Daily’s Vol. 257 autumn quarter issue.
Inspired by individuality and body empowerment. Work focuses on abstraction of human form and color.
Acrylic on canvas
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.