Poured into the lake, the lava simply flowed along the bottom of the water like limbs slipping beneath fresh linen. (Cantor Arts Center, 2024)
Poured into the lake […] is a chapbook on place, intimacy, and belonging created by Keona Blanks and London San Luis.
This publication was created through the Cantor Scholars Program, which welcomes two undergraduate students at Stanford University to work on creative projects in conversation with the Cantor Arts Center's collection and exhibitions.
As an Earth Systems major, Keona Blanks viewed works by Ruth Asawa, Vija Celmins, and Sofía Gallisá Muriente through geological understandings of lava, dust, and ash as connections formed throughout the ocean and earth. This framework provides Blanks a way to contend with colonial settler identity.
London San Luis, a pre-med student studying human biology, took inspiration from artists such as Dean Sameshima and Sasha Gordon to consider queer intimacy and the ways that tension can be created and intensified through color, form, and figuration. Memory, loss, and intimacy are central in San Luis's embodied landscapes.
The chapbook features two lyric essays by Keona Blanks and six paintings and sketches by London San Luis, including ten photographic postcards that interface with San Luis’ artworks.
Poured into the lake […] is a chapbook on place, intimacy, and belonging created by Keona Blanks and London San Luis.
This publication was created through the Cantor Scholars Program, which welcomes two undergraduate students at Stanford University to work on creative projects in conversation with the Cantor Arts Center's collection and exhibitions.
As an Earth Systems major, Keona Blanks viewed works by Ruth Asawa, Vija Celmins, and Sofía Gallisá Muriente through geological understandings of lava, dust, and ash as connections formed throughout the ocean and earth. This framework provides Blanks a way to contend with colonial settler identity.
London San Luis, a pre-med student studying human biology, took inspiration from artists such as Dean Sameshima and Sasha Gordon to consider queer intimacy and the ways that tension can be created and intensified through color, form, and figuration. Memory, loss, and intimacy are central in San Luis's embodied landscapes.
The chapbook features two lyric essays by Keona Blanks and six paintings and sketches by London San Luis, including ten photographic postcards that interface with San Luis’ artworks.
Poured into the lake […] is a chapbook on place, intimacy, and belonging created by Keona Blanks and London San Luis.
This publication was created through the Cantor Scholars Program, which welcomes two undergraduate students at Stanford University to work on creative projects in conversation with the Cantor Arts Center's collection and exhibitions.
As an Earth Systems major, Keona Blanks viewed works by Ruth Asawa, Vija Celmins, and Sofía Gallisá Muriente through geological understandings of lava, dust, and ash as connections formed throughout the ocean and earth. This framework provides Blanks a way to contend with colonial settler identity.
London San Luis, a pre-med student studying human biology, took inspiration from artists such as Dean Sameshima and Sasha Gordon to consider queer intimacy and the ways that tension can be created and intensified through color, form, and figuration. Memory, loss, and intimacy are central in San Luis's embodied landscapes.
The chapbook features two lyric essays by Keona Blanks and six paintings and sketches by London San Luis, including ten photographic postcards that interface with San Luis’ artworks.