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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 combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
2017
Digital Collage
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard with numbers juxtaposing letters, emphasizing how some things are not meant to be rushed and will happen in time.
2019
Acrylic on Canvas
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Link to Website
2021
Short Film
Sea Glass is a poem I wrote in high school about fearing going to college. I transformed it into a book with watercolor paintings and text designs.
2023
Art book
This piece is a manifestation of the growth and maturity, both physically and mentally, found in adolescence. It mimics the flowering of youth.
Photograph of a physical collage (paper, printed image)
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
Pair of multimaterial CNC dragonflies (brass, copper, aluminum, steel). The dragonflies explore age and rebirth through corrosion.
2024
Sculpture
This is a painting of inception as an artist at the Louvre Museum recreates “The Death of Sardanapalus” by Delacroix, a little boy looking up in awe.
I painted this painting following the death of my dog. Sourcing imagery from cheap print and Southern nostalgia, Lassie paints a scene of rebirth.
I took this photograph in a forrest in Germany. I wonder what the dog is doing right now.
2016
Color Film
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
Commenting on our smallness in comparison to all we have to face – be it a pandemic, the vastness of the ocean, or history. Our smallness is humbling
2020
acrylic on cardboard
This is a painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
2022
Oil Paint on Canvas
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
Oil on Canvas
This means “my cabbage” in Russian, and the word also means “money”. This was inspired by a photo from r/peopleofwalmart.
Digital Art
This symbolizes unity, being made by members of the Black Community. South African word, Umbutu, translates to togetherness or “I am because we are”
Acrylic on Paper
This is the place no one would want to miss.
Photo
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
Photograph
Light fluctuations through stained glass is always beautiful and ethereal at different times of day.
2025
Photograph of the Stanford Memorial Church
Serenity from within results from letting go.
2014
Watercolor