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sociology 2020 @eli_firebender
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
2022
Acrylic paint on canvas
Lush layers of volanoes, forest fires, tsunamis are interwoven with snarling dogs, invoking chaotic and powerful forces of nature. 30″ x 40″.
2018
Oil paint and thread on canvas
The mural shows Nangeli – an Ezhava Dalit woman, who had cut off her one breast in protest against the breast tax system in Travancore, Kerala.
Mural
Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.
2017
Digital Visual Art
This poem is dedicated to street children in Andhra Pradesh, India, who continue to face extraordinary barriers in education, health, and security. Link to Artwork
2019
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
Photoshop
In Guam, an invasive species, the rhinoceros beetle, kills many of the island’s trees. I collage over images of trees to meditate on this loss.
2020
Digital inkjet print
A process exploration of dye sublimation to print the iconic “Bliss” wallpaper of the operating system Windows XP onto constructed shutters.
Sculpture: wood, white house paint, printed acrylic sheet, venetian window structure
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.
Link to Website
2021
Photography
A realistic painting of a dog mouth, rendered uncomfortably close to the viewer. 8″ x 10″.
Oil paint on canvas
Location: Law School terrace
Digital Illustration
This painting is in honor of Ahina and all the women that spend years wishing for a day at school.
46″ x 32”
This self portrait depicts how your initial view of the world glitches, or shatters as different experiences come with growing up.
Colored pencil
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
2024
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
Acrylic on Canvas
Inspired by a trip to explore the nature preserves in Mass Landing, CA, this art showcases two curlew birds looking for food in the shallow waters.
Watercolor and Pencil
Princess Going Digital considers queer girlhood on the playground of the laptop screen, a site for unapologetic self-documentation and portraiture.
2023
Gouache on Paper
This drawing for me is meant to capture some of the dynamic processes I have witnesses in the Cosmos.
Watercolor and black ink
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
Oil paint on panel