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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
The setting sun casts a firey light onto the skyline of San Francisco, with Coit Tower visible over the hills of the city.
2022
Oil paint on canvas
A watercolor painting of Stanford Campus
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2023
Acrylic Painting
A portrait of a good dog who has traveled a very long way.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This work is made with acrylic on campus in addition to found paper items, medical textbooks, and other materials.
2018
Acrylic paint and multimedia on canvas
A fun, surreal piece exploring themes related to the modern food industry.
2014
Watercolor on Paper
A colorful view of buildings and the sky over Florence (Firenze).
Oil Paint on Canvas
This is a painting of inception as an artist recreates a Delacroix masterpiece, “The Death of Sardanapalus” with a little boy looking up in awe.
2021
Mimicking the beauty of bioluminescence.
Digital Photography
This piece is an abstract self-portrait linking the internal self and the body to the collective human consciousness.
3D animation (Blender)
Pinned parts of a traditional Vietnamese dress cut to my measurements. Through deconstruction, functionality and familiarity are lost.
Charcoal and Mixed Media on Salvaged Cotton and Organza
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I assemble impressions gathered during my time in Chavín de Huántar.
2017
Digital Visual Art
A woman in dark clothing sits on the graffitied ruins of Sutro Baths, staring into the soft, ethereal waves illuminated by warm sunlight.
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
2015
Mixed Media
I love the idea of a personal brand, especially in 2016.
Color Film
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
Photograph of Man in Paris
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
2016
This work is based off of a found photo archive of World War I era battle photographs. It is from a series that investigates the role of the soldier.
Acrylic, charcoal, and india ink on paper
A projection of water drapes over a foot, the painting interweaves the physical and digital sensation.
Oil on canvas
A collage made from mind media upon reflection of a quarter of studying the classics in Stanford’s freshman SLE residential program.
Mixed Media/Collage