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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 sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
2016
Ink Resist on Paper
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
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.
2020
Acrylic on canvas
A study of a tree for Drawing I in charcoal, exploring silhouettes and shading.
Charcoal on Paper
My family, despite being cramped in a bungalow room that was our home, share warmth and happiness beyond understanding.
2021
Acrylic Paint 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
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
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)
How do you heal after being discarded?
Acrylic on Canvas
A classic San Francisco house is bathed in orange light at sunset.
2022
Oil paint on panel
Sea Glass is a poem I wrote in high school about fearing going to college. I transformed it into a book with watercolor paintings and text designs.
2023
Art book
Mount Daly in Snowmass, Colorado
Gouache paint on watercolor paper
A projection of water drapes over a foot, the painting interweaves the physical and digital sensation.
Link to Website
Oil on canvas
Giant ladle meant to represent heaven, a room where everyone figured out that to feed themselves, they have to feed each other. + Harley Quinn’s bat
Wood sculpture, Metal Sculpture. Can also display photos attached instead
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Watercolor on Paper
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
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood sculpture
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
Projection Installation
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo