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Helen He '23
Location: Main Quad
2023
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This work is about rupture and disruption, whether environmental, familial, or linguistic. I wanted to think visually about over-saturation.
2020
India Ink on Paper
An exploration of nature’s healing power as an avenue for escapism and introspection.
2022
Ballpoint and pencil on paper
These three prints depict tide pool scenes in Moss Beach, CA. They are part of a series, “From Puddles to Pools: A Showcase of Marine Invertebrates.”
2024
Sea Slug is a woodcut and the other two are etchings.
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
gouache (two images combined digitally)
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
2018
Oil Paint on Canvas
A three panel survey of a new environment.
Acrylic on Canvas (Three 5ft x 4ft panels) 60 x 144 in
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
Acrylic on Canvas
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.
2021
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
2019
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
Digital photography prints
Hide my anger behind flowers // my anxiety behind moths // my sadness behind ▓▓▓
Photoshop
The central focus of these prints is the vibrant potato starch granule depicted under polarized light and how its shape and colors are manipulated.
Algorithmic Art made with Processing
Growing up in Iran taught me that limitation breed creativity. I tried to embody the same lesson by using alternative printing methods in the darkroom
2016
Black & white photography
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Link to Website
Short Film
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
Two girls, Cloud and Moon, are safe in space.
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
2017
Digital photography
Continuation of After Class Hours.
A collage with the background of a digital re-illustration of Hokusai’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa to portray our poor disregard and care of Earth.
Digital illustration and collage