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Helen He '23
Location: Main Quad
2023
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
2022
Acrylic on canvas
This is a self portrait examining the complex nature of identity through both realistic forms and abstract shapes.
2016
Acrylic on Canvas
A visual exploration of ZIP, a drug currently in development used to treat PTSD by directly erasing targeted memories.
2018
Mixed Media
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
Taken at Baylands Nature Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a student and a community member.
2019
Photograph
Mice own your belongings at night.
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
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Watercolor on Paper
Vero is a UG2 custodial worker on campus who I tutor through habla. I hoped to display her as I have grown to know her: strong and compelling.
Oil Paint on Canvas
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
Location: Lathrop 24/7 Study Room
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
2017
Ink and print on wood
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard with numbers juxtaposing letters, emphasizing how some things are not meant to be rushed and will happen in time.
Hide my anger behind flowers // my anxiety behind moths // my sadness behind â–“â–“â–“
Photoshop
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
Link to Website
Photography
This painting was an exercise to try and use simple, yet bold brushstrokes to capture the essence of the moment.
Oil paint on canvas
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.
Digital Visual Art
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
2024
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
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
Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.
2020