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Serena Yu

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Hi! Thanks for visiting my portfolio site!

My name is Serena Yu, I’m a community and sustainability driven artist, designer, and nature lover from Vancouver, Canada, currently residing in and studying illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI!

My practice is a constantly evolving process of exploration and discovery.  I am interested in exploring material patterns, functions, relations, and intricacies of the natural world.  I believe in employing sustainable practices in my practice, and deriving materials from the natural world that can easily be returned, emphasizing their innate ephemeral qualities over archival. 
For more information please refer to my CV above.

... Selected Work  
... Illustration 
... Painting
... Foraged Pigments and Material ....Exploration




Knot of Frogs

2024
Watercolour and Goauche on Paper
11” x 14” 



the Ribeiroa Ondatrae is a species of parasitic flatworm that is documented to cause limb malformations, usually excess hind legs, in many species of amphibians. The parasites first intermediate host is the ram horns snail, which is then ingested by the frogs, and the limb malformations are suggested to occur due to interruptions of the limb bud formation during the larval growth stage. These excess limbs make it harder for the frogs to move around, allowing the parasites final target, birds and other predators, to capture and eat the frogs, aiding in spreading the parasites’ offspring.

Last Updated : 1/13/2026