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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 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 realistic painting of a dog mouth, rendered uncomfortably close to the viewer. 8″ x 10″.
2018
Oil paint on canvas
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
2020
colored pencil, poetry
Mice own your belongings at night.
2016
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
Oil Paint on Canvas
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
2017
Digital photography
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
Acrylic paint on canvas
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
2022
A process exploration of dye sublimation to print the iconic “Bliss” wallpaper of the operating system Windows XP onto constructed shutters.
Sculpture: wood, white house paint, printed acrylic sheet, venetian window structure
A portrait of a good dog.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This work is a triptych of body parts from several acclaimed works by Renaissance artists. The famous works are reimagined in a modern style.
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
This drawing shows the harsh lines of a cityscape being consumed by organic forms, suggesting that, try as we might, we cannot overpower nature.
Ink on Paper
This project was done on a ten-day summer trip to my family’s ranch.
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Environmental Photographs
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
Ink and print on wood
An abstract perspective of a cityscape.
2021
Water Color on Paper
Past lovers who couldn’t be together grieve over “what was” and “what could have been”, learning each other’s rhythms tenderly for the first time.
2024
Oil on Canvas
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Short Film
Moving away from home in a new country has given me independence, and also comes with its responsibilities. This piece was an outburst of this feeling Link to Artwork
2023
Poetry
These two small paintings feature a whimsical image that explores feminine sexuality, inspired by the flesh-like quality of oil paint.
oil on cnavs