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Helen He '23
Inspired by Stanford’s Romanesque architecture and towering palm trees, I wanted to capture the university’s vibrant energy and beauty.
2019
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.
2015
Mixed Media
This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.
2022
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A colorful view of buildings and the sky over Florence (Firenze).
2014
Oil Paint on Canvas
A woman in dark clothing sits on the graffitied ruins of Sutro Baths, staring into the soft, ethereal waves illuminated by warm sunlight.
Oil paint on canvas
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
2018
The sky disc’s dynamic effects on viewing the sky were photographically documented over the course of a sunrise and a sunset.
2017
Installation: printed plastic sheeting (pictorico), fishing wire
Warm summer portrait of girl reading.
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Photoshop
The great horned owl is found at Stanford and throughout the Americas and is named for its distinctive ear tufts.
2023
machine embroidery on cotton fabric
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
2021
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
The Andromeda constellation re-imagined, through drawing, through burning holes in paper; how do we impose humanity upon the stars?
2016
Charcoal on paper; flame on tracing paper
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
Roses bloom from her cuts.
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 piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
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
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
Photography
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood sculpture
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
Projection Installation
A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.