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Helen He '23
Whales and dolphins were my favorite animals when I was younger. In this piece, dark shadows contrasted by blue hues highlight that childhood bond.
2018
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
By Helen He '23
generational echos is an interactive art piece created using Processing, delving into the deeply ingrained cultural values in Vietnamese society.
Link to Website
2023
Interactive Video Installation
Light fluctuations through stained glass is always beautiful and ethereal at different times of day.
2025
Photograph of the Stanford Memorial Church
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
2015
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
2017
Photograph of nature
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
Pen and Marker
This is a photograph taken of me practicing golf! I particularly enjoy the lighting and the visual interplay between the golf ball and the clubface.
Photograph of Athletics
Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.
2020
Digital Illustration
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood sculpture
“Ritual” is an unfinished game prototype that is one piece of a meta-narrative that unfolds as the viewer explores the file directory containing it.
Interactive narrative horror game/file explorer experience
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
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
Acrylic paint on canvas
These works were primarily crafted from fashion, science, and interior design magazines ranging from the early 90s to present.
2019
Collage, ink pen
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 painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Western media creates unrealistic expectations of perfection in avocados. In this painting, I seek to challenge and redefine avocado beauty standards.
Oil on canvas
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
2021
This is a painting of inception as an artist recreates a Delacroix masterpiece, “The Death of Sardanapalus” with a little boy looking up in awe.
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
Watercolor
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
Photograph/Scanned Image
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
Ink Resist on Paper