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Bioengineering PhD 2021 @melissaboswell_
“I’ve loved you since the day I met you”
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
A sense of colorful peace
2018
painting on computer
This solo play premiered in Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and made its US debut in New York City where I won the award for ‘Best Emerging Actor’
Link to Website
Photograph of Performance (solo play)
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard with numbers juxtaposing letters, emphasizing how some things are not meant to be rushed and will happen in time.
2019
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
Oil on Canvas
This painting is in honor of Ahina and all the women that spend years wishing for a day at school.
2017
46″ x 32”
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
This piece is a manipulated photograph printed on metal.
Mixed Media on Metal
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.
2022
Graphite
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
Oil Paint on Canvas
This 5-page word-art series explores the way emotion and memory lives in the body through experimentation with colour.
Mixed media (watercolor, charcoal pencils, pencil) on sketch paper
Girl meets whale.
Digital Illustration
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
Digital photography prints
The central focus of these prints is the vibrant potato starch granule depicted under polarized light and how its shape and colors are manipulated.
Algorithmic Art made with Processing
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
Photograph of Landscape
My family, despite being cramped in a bungalow room that was our home, share warmth and happiness beyond understanding.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
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
Creative Writing (Poetry)
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
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
2016
Digital Visual Art
This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
Water Color on Paper