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Helen He '23
Location: Main Quad
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
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2021
Short Film
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
This series is meant to bring inspiration, energy and presence to the broader community during a difficult time of shelter-in-place and quarantine.
Acrylic gouache on Yupo Polypropylene Paper
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
Projection Installation
An exploration of nature’s healing power as an avenue for escapism and introspection.
2022
Ballpoint and pencil on paper
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
colored pencil, poetry
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These would represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
Acrylic on Canvas
Warm summer portrait of girl reading.
2018
Photoshop
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
Oil paint on panel
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Watercolor on Paper
The central focus of these prints is the vibrant potato starch granule depicted under polarized light and how its shape and colors are manipulated.
2023
Algorithmic Art made with Processing
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
Digital photography prints
This 3D, interactive piece represents my relationship with my immigrant other due to the shifting pressures of assimilation.
Interactive 3D animation installation
This piece depicts how TikTok primarily portrays a fetishized version of Asian women, leading to an uncertain digital future of complicated dynamics.
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
Oil on Canvas
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.
window screens, oil paint
While at SFMOMA with Stanford’s ITALIC program, I created this self-portrait to explore the merging of technology with my image of self.
Photograph
This is about alienation and emotional expression as a stone, cold figure looks blankly to a wall of artificial expressions in a room.
Digital 3D Render