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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
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
Original cover art for the Stanford Daily’s Vol. 257 autumn quarter issue.
2019
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
2017
Oil on Canvas
Inspired by Stanford’s Romanesque architecture and towering palm trees, I wanted to capture the university’s vibrant energy and beauty.
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
2022
Acrylic paint on canvas
Taken in Alberta, Canada. My hope is not to showcase landscapes but to acknowledge that Earth’s beauty surrounds us.
Photograph
A light spring shower wakes the soul. Inspired by the Adobe MAX + Inktober 2018 October 15th Prompt: light.
Photoshop
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.
Digital illustration and collage
Location: East Asia Library
2021
My piece comments on the movement of youth in Mexico towards narco culture and the dire implications it has for more traditional aspects the culture.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
Digital painting
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
Oil Paint on Canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
I made these photos at the abandoned Oppenheimer film set in Ghost Ranch, NM. Downwinders in NM harmed by test radiation remain uncompensated by RECA.
2023
35mm Photography
This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
Water Color on Paper
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
2016
Watercolor
This piece depicts a fictionalized memory of my grandfather, who I only knew through his woven hats and birds passed down through my family.
The sky disc’s dynamic effects on viewing the sky were photographically documented over the course of a sunrise and a sunset.
Installation: printed plastic sheeting (pictorico), fishing wire
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
Laser Cut Birchwood