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Helen He '23
Night is when the imagination comes alive.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
Released some restless energy onto paper with this portrait sketch.
Graphite on Paper
These small paintings were quick, gestural sketches that explore the beauty of the feminine form.
2018
Oil 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.
2019
Digital illustration and collage
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
Photograph of Landscape
A study of a tree for Drawing I in charcoal, exploring silhouettes and shading.
Charcoal on Paper
I drew some random kid I found on a Youtube thumbnail. I think it was an Omeleto video.
Colored Pencil on Paper, Digital
“I’ve loved you since the day I met you”
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard, the numbers juxtaposing the letters and a soft, glowing gleam reflecting across its surface.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
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
India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.
Enamel Paint
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
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
This is the moment when the smallest to the biggest invisibilities came to life, and unity in faith and science was apparent.
2016
Wax Pastel on Wood
This song is a unique take on John Coltrane’s ‘Impressions’ in terms of instrumentation, style, and genre.
Link to Website
Guitar recording with electronic drums and synths
Taken in Alberta, Canada. My hope is not to showcase landscapes but to acknowledge that Earth’s beauty surrounds us.
Photograph
Stillness, the relationship between Venice’s constant landscape and its moving parts, environments of order that have witnessed extravagant change
acrylic on canvas
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
2024
Video Art
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
Video Art (with sound)
This painting was an exercise to try and use simple, yet bold brushstrokes to capture the essence of the moment.
Oil paint on canvas
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.