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Yifei He '22
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
2019
Photograph
By Yifei He '22
This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”
2020
Vector drawing and photography
Video edited from found footage reflecting on the repetition, absurdity, and futility of everyday life. Duration: 05:05
Link to Website
2018
Video Art
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
This piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
Digital Illustration
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
Digital painting
Photojournalistic exploration of the human impact of rhino poaching in South Africa – done in Prof Sue McConnell’s overseas seminar in Summer 2016.
2016
Photographs
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
Digital photography prints
This piece is of my neighbor’s beagle, Clyde. She has two dogs, and the other is named Bonnie!
Colored pencil
The Countour of White Sands NP
2023
A depiction of the Southeast Alaskan landscape, seen from a kayak near the Inian Islands. 25.5″ x 36″
Oil paint on paper
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
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
Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.
Digital Photographs
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Short Film
This piece depicts how TikTok primarily portrays a fetishized version of Asian women, leading to an uncertain digital future of complicated dynamics.
2022
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
Oil Paint on Canvas
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
Oil on Canvas
This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.