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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
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
2016
Ink Resist on Paper
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
2024
Oil on Canvas
Light fluctuations through stained glass is always beautiful and ethereal at different times of day.
2025
Photograph of the Stanford Memorial Church
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
2017
Laser Cut Birchwood
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
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
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
Digital Visual Art
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
2020
Oil paint on canvas
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Link to Website
2021
Short Film
Inspired by a trip to explore the nature preserves in Mass Landing, CA, this art showcases two curlew birds looking for food in the shallow waters.
Watercolor and Pencil
A piece set on a quiet, sunny afternoon in Northeast Italy. Used a reference.
Colored Pencil on Paper
Location: East Asia Library
It’s a shame if you did not get around time to see Hoover Tower in different lights.
Photo
Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
Photography
In a pre-show photoshoot for my roommate’s student classical Indian dance ensemble, Noopur, she “breaks character” during a pose.
Photograph
Representation of an Asian woman navigating a worldwide pandemic, situated in the centre of racial prejudice, capitalism, & social media connectivity.
Scanned magazine collage, colour pencils, and pen on Sketchbook
Roses bloom from her cuts.
Photoshop
A projection of water drapes over a foot, the painting interweaves the physical and digital sensation.
Oil on canvas
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
2022