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Helen He '23
Location: Main Quad
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
I wanted to render a tree during a vibrant morning on The Farm from a design perspective.
2016
Ink Resist
A sense of colorful peace
2018
painting on computer
The girl who depicts prosperity is looking beyond her world into one that’s suppressed by indigence, because to solve a problem you must face it.
2017
acrylic on canvas
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
2019
Oil on canvas
Giant ladle meant to represent heaven, a room where everyone figured out that to feed themselves, they have to feed each other. + Harley Quinn’s bat
2023
Wood sculpture, Metal Sculpture. Can also display photos attached instead
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard, the numbers juxtaposing the letters and a soft, glowing gleam reflecting across its surface.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Sea Glass is a poem I wrote in high school about fearing going to college. I transformed it into a book with watercolor paintings and text designs.
Art book
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
Digital Visual Art
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.
Link to Website
2021
Photography
I painted this painting following the death of my dog. Sourcing imagery from cheap print and Southern nostalgia, Lassie paints a scene of rebirth.
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
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
Laser Cut Birchwood
This piece depicts how the new digital, photo-sharing era fetishizes Asian women against their will, especially in their traditional attire.
2022
Linoleum Block Print on 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
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
Oil Paint on Canvas
Original cover art for the Stanford Daily’s Vol. 257 autumn quarter issue.
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.
Boulder & Rope
Girl meets whale.
Continuation of After Class Hours.
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.