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Earth Systems 2025 @laiabent
This piece grapples with the difficulty of forgiveness. Opposing forces compete: luminosity and shadow, serenity and grief, redemption and regression.
2022
Oil on canvas
Location: Main Quad
2020
Digital Illustration
Using alternative black and white photography techniques, I tried to illustrate the poems of the Persian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri.
2016
Black and White photography
Inspired by individuality and body empowerment. Work focuses on abstraction of human form and color.
2019
Acrylic on canvas
Our hands – bridges, sinewy tendons & arteries – among the last parts dissected because of their distinctly human character.
2015
Photography; De-identified photo taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
This photography series depicts the four indigenous Khmer women at Stanford, invisibility, and the consequent strong community we formed.
Link to Website
Photography Series
Episode 1 of an upcoming mystery micro-film series
Short Film
India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.
2017
Enamel Paint
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
2018
Photoshop
Video edited from found footage reflecting on the repetition, absurdity, and futility of everyday life. Duration: 05:05
Video Art
Lucky to witness a green Dish.
Photo
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
Acrylic paint on canvas
Pinned parts of a traditional Vietnamese dress cut to my measurements. Through deconstruction, functionality and familiarity are lost.
2023
Charcoal and Mixed Media on Salvaged Cotton and Organza
This work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
Oil on Canvas
I loved this photograph my mom took on our trip to Kenya, and I wanted to recreate the beautiful designs on the fabric here.
Charcoal
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
Mixed Media
Taken on a Sophomore College trip to Tanzania, a Maasai junior warrior dons the traditional post-circumcision black robes and white face paint.
Photograph
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
Androids may dream of electric sheep, and electric sheep …
doodle
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