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Yifei He '22
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
By Yifei He '22
This painting speaks to how beauty lies in impermanence, contrasting eternal mountains and passing mist.
2023
ink on rice paper; poetry
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
2018
Oil paint on found wood
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.
This is the place no one would want to miss.
2017
Photo
This work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
Oil on Canvas
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
Photograph of Man in Paris
This piece grapples with the difficulty of forgiveness. Opposing forces compete: luminosity and shadow, serenity and grief, redemption and regression.
2022
Oil on canvas
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
Link to Website
Projection Installation
Not sure if this counts, but I created a Stanford logo made from many smaller photos. I can make another one, from more interesting photos.
2020
Digital Photograph
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
Stillness, the relationship between Venice’s constant landscape and its moving parts, environments of order that have witnessed extravagant change
acrylic on canvas
Lush layers of volanoes, forest fires, tsunamis are interwoven with snarling dogs, invoking chaotic and powerful forces of nature. 30″ x 40″.
Oil paint and thread on canvas
Original cover art for the Stanford Daily’s Vol. 257 autumn quarter issue.
Digital Illustration
This work is based off of a found photo archive of World War I era battle photographs. It is from a series that investigates the role of the soldier.
2016
Acrylic, charcoal, and india ink on paper
These photographs were taken in Aegina, Greece. During ancient times Aegina was a rival of Athens, the great sea power of the era.
Digital Photographs
I made these photos at the abandoned Oppenheimer film set in Ghost Ranch, NM. Downwinders in NM harmed by test radiation remain uncompensated by RECA.
35mm Photography
She wipes the mask off after a long day.
Photoshop
How do you heal after being discarded?
Acrylic on Canvas
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood Sculpture