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Helen He '23
Girl meets whale.
2017
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.
Link to Website
2021
Photography
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
2018
Oil paint on canvas
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
This painting was an exercise to try and use simple, yet bold brushstrokes to capture the essence of the moment.
This project was done on a ten-day summer trip to my family’s ranch.
Environmental Photographs
I painted a woman who is battered but is pushing herself back up with resiliency. She sends a message of hope to those facing difficulties.
acrylic on wood
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
2024
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
Growing up in Iran taught me that limitation breed creativity. I tried to embody the same lesson by using alternative printing methods in the darkroom
2016
Black & white photography
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
2023
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A sense of colorful peace
painting on computer
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
Oil on Canvas
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
2015
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This work is made with acrylic on campus in addition to found paper items, medical textbooks, and other materials.
Acrylic paint and multimedia on canvas
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
Pen and Marker
BEAM Stanford-related photos
2019
Digital photographs
This piece was made the week before quarantine when everything was uncertain and the weight of not knowing what was to come next hung over our heads.
2020
Boulder & Rope
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
Oil on canvas
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
This image plays with scale, texture, and the physicality of water.
Color Film
This piece is of my neighbor’s beagle, Clyde. She has two dogs, and the other is named Bonnie!
Colored pencil