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Helen He '23
Location: Main Quad
2023
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
Princess Going Digital considers queer girlhood on the playground of the laptop screen, a site for unapologetic self-documentation and portraiture.
Gouache on Paper
An exploration of nature’s healing power as an avenue for escapism and introspection.
2022
Ballpoint and pencil on paper
This drawing for me is meant to capture some of the dynamic processes I have witnesses in the Cosmos.
2018
Watercolor and black ink
A classic San Francisco house is bathed in orange light at sunset.
Oil paint on panel
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
This drawing shows the harsh lines of a cityscape being consumed by organic forms, suggesting that, try as we might, we cannot overpower nature.
2017
Ink on Paper
Episode 1 of an upcoming mystery micro-film series
Link to Website
Short Film
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.
2020
Boulder & Rope
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
Photography
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
This is the first of an ongoing watercolor series completed under shelter-in-place, based on photos that friends have sent of their favorite views.
Watercolor
I catch lightning bugs, flitting moments often overlooked, and bring attention to them, so that they might spark a lightbulb in the minds of others.
MultiMedia(Charcoal and Colored Pencil)
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
2019
Oil Paint on Canvas
The mural shows Nangeli – an Ezhava Dalit woman, who had cut off her one breast in protest against the breast tax system in Travancore, Kerala.
Mural
This piece depicts how TikTok primarily portrays a fetishized version of Asian women, leading to an uncertain digital future of complicated dynamics.
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
Art reveals souls in day and night.
A dynamic clash, emotions entwined,
In this vibrant realm, our spirits aligned.
2024
Digital Media – Made with Procreate for Apple iPad
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
Photograph
A depiction of the Southeast Alaskan landscape, seen from a kayak near the Inian Islands. 25.5″ x 36″
Oil paint on paper