Graduation Year
2025
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Art, Scripps College
Second Department
Computer Science
Reader 1
Kim-Trang Tran
Reader 2
Tia Blassingame
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© 2025 Trinity Zhang
Abstract
Where Crimson Tears Fall is an exploration of personal grief. Hinging on Chinese brush painting principles of “shan shui” (natural landscape painting, directly translated to ”mountain water”), I explore how this traditional art form can be expanded in terms of color and composition to articulate the intense psychological and emotional experience of personal loss. While this painting aims to represent the essence of my grief as both a numbed pain and a raw, stinging wound, the visual result is an ominous but hauntingly beautiful scene, as if nature sits with you in empathy.
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Trinity, "Personal Grief in Contemporary Shan Shui" (2025). HMC Senior Theses. 287.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/287
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
