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Helen He '23
Girl meets whale.
2017
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
every part of this earth is a surrogate for the people that helped create iteach building reflects the community that built it
2018
Acrylic on Canvas
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
2023
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
2019
monotype on paper
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
Link to Website
2024
Video Art
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.
Enamel Paint
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
Oil on Canvas
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
These are part of an ongoing series of portraits of people I met in passing. They can be displayed together or individually.
Oil on canvas
Growing up in Iran taught me that limitation breed creativity. I tried to embody the same lesson by using alternative printing methods in the darkroom
2016
Black & white photography
Inspired by a trip to explore the nature preserves in Mass Landing, CA, this art showcases two curlew birds looking for food in the shallow waters.
Watercolor and Pencil
I loved this photograph my mom took on our trip to Kenya, and I wanted to recreate the beautiful designs on the fabric here.
Charcoal
This is the place no one would want to miss.
Photo
Metamorphosis explores queerness as a transformation, as more than just a sexual identity. See http://stanfordmint.com/metamorphosis/ for full article
Studio photography
A collage made from mind media upon reflection of a quarter of studying the classics in Stanford’s freshman SLE residential program.
Mixed Media/Collage
Released some restless energy onto paper with this portrait sketch.
2020
Graphite on Paper
I painted this painting following the death of my dog. Sourcing imagery from cheap print and Southern nostalgia, Lassie paints a scene of rebirth.
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
2022
Acrylic on canvas
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
2021
Short Film
Pair of multimaterial CNC dragonflies (brass, copper, aluminum, steel). The dragonflies explore age and rebirth through corrosion.
Sculpture