College of Fine Arts seniors Angela Lian and Jay Li — the newly selected artists in residence for Innovate@BU’s 2021 IDEA Conference — plan to create a permanent exhibit at the BUild lab inspired by their desire to encourage students to slow down and appreciate time.

Underneath Sedrick Huckaby’s strokes of impasto in his painted portraits, layers of history lie in the expressions of each subject and the thickness of the paint itself.