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Helen He '23
Original cover art for the Stanford Daily’s Vol. 257 autumn quarter issue.
2019
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
I made this painting in Iceland as part of my Chappell-Lougee arts project. It is a portrait of a glacier in the glacier lagoon known as Jökulsárlón.
2016
Mixed media (oil paint, charcoal, pastel, grass) on canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
Digital Collage
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
2018
Graphite and watercolor on paper
I took this photo at the Palo Alto Caltrain station in the fall. I used black ink and a black and white filter to provide an “outside of time” look.
Digital Photograph
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.
Link to Website
2020
Boulder & Rope
This series is meant to bring inspiration, energy and presence to the broader community during a difficult time of shelter-in-place and quarantine.
Acrylic gouache on Yupo Polypropylene Paper
Location: Law School terrace
A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.
2021
Photography
This print came from a colored pencil drawing I made for a friend. I thought it’d be sweet to make a sort of postcard from it.
2024
Four color Riso print
Inspired by the strange reflection of an empty glass sitting on a table, this is a piece is about power and powerlessness—control and lack of it.
Acrylic on canvas
This means “my cabbage” in Russian, and the word also means “money”. This was inspired by a photo from r/peopleofwalmart.
Digital Art
I was inspired by a picture I took of my grandfather when visiting Korea for the first time since immigrating to America in 2001.
2023
Oil on Canvas
Originally meant as a study of diffused light in a “nocturne” scene, this piece is a take on portraiture, figures, and landscape in one.
Oil Paint on Canvas
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
Oil on canvas
In a pre-show photoshoot for my roommate’s student classical Indian dance ensemble, Noopur, she “breaks character” during a pose.
Photograph
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
Past lovers who couldn’t be together grieve over “what was” and “what could have been”, learning each other’s rhythms tenderly for the first time.
I created this piece in order to show a city full of life in contrast to one that is merely an outline.
Acrylic on Paper
This drawing is a representation of a fractal called a Julia set, which has been rendered out of plants and other organic elements.
Markers on paper