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Helen He '23
Location: Main Quad
2023
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
These small paintings were quick, gestural sketches that explore the beauty of the feminine form.
2018
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.
2022
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Princess Going Digital considers queer girlhood on the playground of the laptop screen, a site for unapologetic self-documentation and portraiture.
Gouache on Paper
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.
2021
Seeing the majestic elephants in Kenya was one of my favorite memories from my trip, and I loved depicting the different textures of the landscape.
2016
Whales and dolphins were my favorite animals when I was younger. In this piece, dark shadows contrasted by blue hues highlight that childhood bond.
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
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Short Film
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood Sculpture
A close-up, multi-colored rendering of Eppendorf tubes illustrates that Lab Life is not as monochromatic as it appears.
2019
Oil paint 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
This is about alienation and emotional expression as a stone, cold figure looks blankly to a wall of artificial expressions in a room.
Digital 3D Render
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
Watercolor
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
Colorful shapes of San Francisco buildings are highlighted by a bright sunny day.
Oil paint on canvas
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
2020
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
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
Digital Visual Art
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Watercolor on Paper
Two girls, Cloud and Moon, are safe in space.
Warm summer portrait of girl reading.