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Helen He '23
Night is when the imagination comes alive.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
Photo series capturing California’s landscapes and the impacts of human intervention through 35mm film.
Link to Website
Analog Film
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
2017
Laser Cut Birchwood
This is the place no one would want to miss.
Photo
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 contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi around her as they mesh together following the fish’s flow.
2021
Oil Paint on Canvas
Quad is always changing amazingly.
Continuation of After Class Hours.
*sixth photograph of Hidden Gems series
Series of Photographs
A coloring pages for people to color and de-stress:) These pages are part of my project Coloring to Cope for the COVID-19 art grant.
2022
Digital
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
Acrylic on canvas
Taken in Alberta, Canada. My hope is not to showcase landscapes but to acknowledge that Earth’s beauty surrounds us.
Photograph
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
Ink and print on wood
This drawing for me is meant to capture some of the dynamic processes I have witnesses in the Cosmos.
2018
Watercolor and black ink
An ongoing series attempting to create an emotive instant through color theory principles
Acrylic on Canvas
Art reveals souls in day and night.
A dynamic clash, emotions entwined,
In this vibrant realm, our spirits aligned.
2024
Digital Media – Made with Procreate for Apple iPad
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
2016
Ink Resist on Paper
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
Oil on Canvas
Released some restless energy onto paper with this portrait sketch.
Graphite on Paper