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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
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
2019
Oil on Canvas
Light fluctuations through stained glass is always beautiful and ethereal at different times of day.
2025
Photograph of the Stanford Memorial Church
This solo play premiered in Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and made its US debut in New York City where I won the award for ‘Best Emerging Actor’
Link to Website
2023
Photograph of Performance (solo play)
This is a painting I did for the Congressional Art Competition. The painting is of my mother’s horse JR on my last ride on him before he died.
2014
Acrylic on canvas 24″x 24″
Two girls, Cloud and Moon, are safe in space.
Photoshop
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
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
The Countour of White Sands NP
Photograph
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
monotype on paper
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This image plays with scale, texture, and the physicality of water.
2016
Color Film
Abstract photography with the goal of rendering mundane objects unrecognizable.
Photography
Princess Going Digital considers queer girlhood on the playground of the laptop screen, a site for unapologetic self-documentation and portraiture.
Gouache on Paper
This work showcases cultural connection and displacement. The food that should be on your table is now hung on a wall, commemorated but inaccessible.
2024
Monoprints on food wrapping paper, laser cut stencils
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
2020
colored pencil, poetry
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These would represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Acrylic paint on canvas