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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
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
2017
Digital photography
A series of photo edits of everyday moments at Stanford.
Digital Art
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard, the numbers juxtaposing the letters and a soft, glowing gleam reflecting across its surface.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
2018
Photograph of Landscape
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
Link to Website
2023
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
Taken on a Sophomore College trip to Tanzania, a Maasai junior warrior dons the traditional post-circumcision black robes and white face paint.
Photograph
This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”
2020
Vector drawing and photography
A watercolor painting of Stanford Campus
Acrylic Painting
This self portrait depicts how your initial view of the world glitches, or shatters as different experiences come with growing up.
Colored pencil
This piece tackles the topic of invisible disabilities and the stigma that many invisibly disabled people, myself included, face.
Photograph on Canvas, Embroidery
“Oxymoron” defies norms with the bond between a fierce girl warrior and her majestic dragon companion, embodying unity amidst contrast. Link to Artwork
2024
Watercolors and inkpen on mixed media paper
Night is when the imagination comes alive.
A visual exploration of ZIP, a drug currently in development used to treat PTSD by directly erasing targeted memories.
Mixed Media
I painted one piece for each type of binaural beat to test the hypothesis, “distinct beat = distinct effect.” Conclusion? It didn’t really pan out.
Watercolor on Paper
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
2014
Pencil and paper
February is a gray month, but these flowers bloomed anyway. Link to Artwork
sublimation print on synthetic blue satin
Episode 1 of an upcoming mystery micro-film series
2022
Short Film
This is a “still life” of the fish market at my local Chinese grocery store. It is a wet, slimy, strange, intimidating, and magnificent place.
Acrylic on Canvas
This is the first of an ongoing watercolor series completed under shelter-in-place, based on photos that friends have sent of their favorite views.
Watercolor
A close-up, multi-colored rendering of Eppendorf tubes illustrates that Lab Life is not as monochromatic as it appears.
Oil paint on Canvas