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Helen He '23
Location: Main Quad
2023
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
2022
Water Color on Paper
This solo play premiered in Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and made its US debut in New York City where I won the award for ‘Best Emerging Actor’
Link to Website
Photograph of Performance (solo play)
De-identified photograph taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
2015
Photograph
A portrayal of the death of Chaos as depicted in the Zhuangzi, who expired after Shu and Hu bored a new hole into him each day for seven days.
Digital Visual Art
Mice own your belongings at night.
2016
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
Whales and dolphins were my favorite animals when I was younger. In this piece, dark shadows contrasted by blue hues highlight that childhood bond.
2018
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
Abstract photography with the goal of rendering mundane objects unrecognizable.
Photography
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
2019
monotype on paper
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Acrylic paint on canvas
Series highlighting experiences with environmental change, connection to place, and emotional displacement by collaging satellite maps with portraits.
Photography/digital collage
A self-portrait composed of identity objects: rings from my mother, the teapot on my coffee table, the graphic on my favorite t-shirt, etc.
2020
Digital Collage
Commenting on our smallness in comparison to all we have to face – be it a pandemic, the vastness of the ocean, or history. Our smallness is humbling
acrylic on cardboard
Light fluctuations through stained glass is always beautiful and ethereal at different times of day.
2025
Photograph of the Stanford Memorial Church
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
The great horned owl is found at Stanford and throughout the Americas and is named for its distinctive ear tufts.
machine embroidery on cotton fabric
A collage made from mind media upon reflection of a quarter of studying the classics in Stanford’s freshman SLE residential program.
Mixed Media/Collage
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
A process exploration of dye sublimation to print the iconic “Bliss” wallpaper of the operating system Windows XP onto constructed shutters.
2017
Sculpture: wood, white house paint, printed acrylic sheet, venetian window structure
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
Photograph/Scanned Image