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Helen Liu '20
Taken in Alberta, Canada. My hope is not to showcase landscapes but to acknowledge that Earth’s beauty surrounds us.
2017
Photograph
By Helen Liu '20
A three panel survey of a new environment.
2018
Acrylic on Canvas (Three 5ft x 4ft panels) 60 x 144 in
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
Graphite and watercolor on paper
This piece captures the fleeting, but golden moment of connection between the deer and the viewer. A reminder that beautiful things are fleeting.
2015
Oil on canvas
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard with numbers juxtaposing letters, emphasizing how some things are not meant to be rushed and will happen in time.
2019
Acrylic on Canvas
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
Link to Website
2024
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.
window screens, oil paint
A sketched self-portrait replaced into its photographic context.
2020
Graphite on Paper, Photograph
This drawing is a representation of a fractal called a Julia set, which has been rendered out of plants and other organic elements.
Markers on paper
Cool portrait of girl trying to keep in her tears.
Photoshop
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. –Robert Wyland
2023
Digital Media – Made in Procreate for Apple iPad
This work showcases cultural connection and displacement. The food that should be on your table is now hung on a wall, commemorated but inaccessible.
Monoprints on food wrapping paper, laser cut stencils
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
Oil Paint on Canvas
It’s a shame if you did not get around time to see Hoover Tower in different lights.
Photo
I wanted to depict the endless possibilities of this world; the one we are so used to taking for granted.
Acrylic on canvas
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Oil paint on canvas
At Bay is a student-created web series about the launch of a Stanford startup that goes horribly, horribly wrong.
2016
Still from a web series
every part of this earth is a surrogate for the people that helped create iteach building reflects the community that built it
A light spring shower wakes the soul. Inspired by the Adobe MAX + Inktober 2018 October 15th Prompt: light.