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Visitors to the Stanford Archaeology Center find modern glass cases filled with fragments of a lost city – wooden toothbrushes and combs, buttons and leather shoes, ceramic bowls and soup spoons. These are the remnants of the once thriving Chinatown community in downtown San José. Today, these archaeological findings populate City Beneath the City, an art installation designed by…
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
2023
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
2019
monotype on paper
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
2017
Oil Paint on Canvas
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
Link to Website
2024
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
These photos will never be published in a journalistic publication – familiar scenes on campus but different, the other side of palm tree paradise?
2018
Photograph of campus scenes
I made this piece as an exploration of how cows are perceived in different cultures, and society’s relationship to animals as a whole.
2015
Mixed Media
Growing up in Iran taught me that limitation breed creativity. I tried to embody the same lesson by using alternative printing methods in the darkroom
2016
Black & white photography
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
2021
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
A self-portrait composed of identity objects: rings from my mother, the teapot on my coffee table, the graphic on my favorite t-shirt, etc.
2020
Digital Collage
Representation of an Asian woman navigating a worldwide pandemic, situated in the centre of racial prejudice, capitalism, & social media connectivity.
Scanned magazine collage, colour pencils, and pen on Sketchbook
Body painting is used to simulate the patient-doctor relationship. Imagery is inspired by anatomy and the model’s bodily experiences.
Body Paint on Skin
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Short Film
Vero is a UG2 custodial worker on campus who I tutor through habla. I hoped to display her as I have grown to know her: strong and compelling.
The girl who depicts prosperity is looking beyond her world into one that’s suppressed by indigence, because to solve a problem you must face it.
acrylic on canvas
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
Photograph
The Andromeda constellation re-imagined, through drawing, through burning holes in paper; how do we impose humanity upon the stars?
Charcoal on paper; flame on tracing paper
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
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.
Photography
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
Watercolor