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Helen He '23
Machines roar and metal parts clang away in the background in this artwork as an enormous robot is constructed before the eyes of a young spectator.
2019
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
By Helen He '23
I painted a face digitally, and I like frames, angels, and rocket ships.
2020
Digital Art
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
2017
Laser Cut Birchwood
You have pomegranate trees in your backyard, well so do I. Your family can’t afford to live in the Bay Area, well neither can mine…You’re just like me
2024
Oil on canvas
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
2018
Graphite and watercolor on paper
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
Link to Website
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
This self portrait addresses my invisible disability and the words around me are a mix of medical statements and emotional entries from my journal.
Graphite on Paper
I wanted to depict the endless possibilities of this world; the one we are so used to taking for granted.
Acrylic on canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
Girl meets whale.
Digital Illustration
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
This piece highlights the importance of community and hope in the midst of a pandemic, despite physical separation from others.
Acrylic on Canvas
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I assemble impressions gathered during my time in Chavín de Huántar.
Digital Visual Art
Moving away from home in a new country has given me independence, and also comes with its responsibilities. This piece was an outburst of this feeling Link to Artwork
2023
Poetry
A process exploration of dye sublimation to print the iconic “Bliss” wallpaper of the operating system Windows XP onto constructed shutters.
Sculpture: wood, white house paint, printed acrylic sheet, venetian window structure
This series was taken at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion.
Series of Photographs
Sea Glass is a poem I wrote in high school about fearing going to college. I transformed it into a book with watercolor paintings and text designs.
Art book
In a pre-show photoshoot for my roommate’s student classical Indian dance ensemble, Noopur, she “breaks character” during a pose.
2016
Photograph
Lush layers of volanoes, forest fires, tsunamis are interwoven with snarling dogs, invoking chaotic and powerful forces of nature. 30″ x 40″.
Oil paint and thread on canvas
Rendering of a modern jazz pavilion, referencing the visual skeleton chord structure of jazz compositions.
Digital Rendering