Dev Phung

  • Crimson Fragmentation

    This is a mixed-media piece I worked on with fellow Puget Sound based artists, Manmeet Oberoi and Joseph Gacula. It is themed after fragmented memories of another and forms of loss through the passage of time. Manmeet Oberoi conceptualized the idea of the photography with me and directed the composition of the image. I wrote…

    Crimson Fragmentation
  • 我Ai

    This is a short bilingual spoken-word poem I wrote about the narrator’s and their dad’s conversation about the use of AI. The narrator describes how their dad’s use of AI assisted tools to speak to them is creating tension between them. The font size and bolds are used to emphasize the narrator’s frustration towards their…

    我Ai
  • Me(i)

    A photography-based project I did. My Chinese name, 美榕 (měi róng), means beautiful, but if written differently as 美容 it could mean to improve one’s appearance and make themselves more attractive. I focused on showcasing how beauty standards can cause us idealize different things until eventually we scratch beneath the surface and realize we are…

    Me(i)
  • Clamor Literary and Art’s Journal 20th Anniversary Edition

    During 2025-2026, I was a full-time editor for UW Bothell’s Clamor Literacy & Art Journal. I was part of the design and promotion/distribution teams. I worked on designing posters and flyers for promoting Clamor across campus and on its social media. One of my recruitment fliers was mass-published, one that I designed for Autumn Quarter…

    Clamor Literary and Art’s Journal 20th Anniversary Edition
  • Self-Portrait

    This is a portrait of myself sitting near a backyard door, capturing my own self in a time where I feel beautiful when I see myself and am more expressive with myself when I go out more. I experimented with a mix of charcoal and graphite, and used a mirror to use my reflection as…

    Self-Portrait