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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
This 5-page word-art series explores the way emotion and memory lives in the body through experimentation with colour.
2023
Mixed media (watercolor, charcoal pencils, pencil) on sketch paper
This work is a triptych of body parts from several acclaimed works by Renaissance artists. The famous works are reimagined in a modern style.
2018
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
I love the idea of a personal brand, especially in 2016.
2014
Color Film
A colorful view of buildings and the sky over Florence (Firenze).
Oil Paint on Canvas
Inspired by individuality and body empowerment. Work focuses on abstraction of human form and color.
Acrylic on canvas
A sketched self-portrait replaced into its photographic context.
2020
Graphite on Paper, Photograph
Location: East Asia Library
2021
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
Photograph/Scanned Image
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
A faceless woman in a room of South Vietnamese soldiers
2022
Graphite on Paper
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
Laser Cut Birchwood
Often, I find myself missing the changing of seasons. But if I just look closely, signs of autumn are all around.
Nature Photography
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
2015
Mixed Media
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
Taken on a Sophomore College trip to Tanzania, a Maasai junior warrior dons the traditional post-circumcision black robes and white face paint.
Photograph
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
Photoshop
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
Link to Website
Projection Installation
This piece tackles the topic of invisible disabilities and the stigma that many invisibly disabled people, myself included, face.
Photograph on Canvas, Embroidery
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?