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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
This piece explores duality in behavior: relaxing the tongue can provide a positive experience during kissing, but can prove deadly with sleep apnea. Link to Artwork
2022
Writing
A classic San Francisco house is bathed in orange light at sunset.
Oil paint on panel
This series is meant to bring inspiration, energy and presence to the broader community during a difficult time of shelter-in-place and quarantine.
2020
Acrylic gouache on Yupo Polypropylene Paper
Girl meets whale.
2017
Digital Illustration
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
2019
Photograph
This painting is in honor of Ahina and all the women that spend years wishing for a day at school.
46″ x 32”
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Link to Website
2021
Short Film
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
Photograph of Landscape
This is the first of an ongoing watercolor series completed under shelter-in-place, based on photos that friends have sent of their favorite views.
Watercolor
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
colored pencil, poetry
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
2016
Machines roar and metal parts clang away in the background in this artwork as an enormous robot is constructed before the eyes of a young spectator.
Taken in Alberta, Canada. My hope is not to showcase landscapes but to acknowledge that Earth’s beauty surrounds us.
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
song / soundscape
This 3D, interactive piece represents my relationship with my immigrant other due to the shifting pressures of assimilation.
2023
Interactive 3D animation installation
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
Oil paint on found wood
I love the idea of a personal brand, especially in 2016.
2014
Color Film
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
Environmental Photographs