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Helen He '23
Girl meets whale.
2017
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
Original cover art for the Stanford Daily’s Vol. 257 autumn quarter issue.
2019
Shriram California photos
Digital photographs
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
2020
Oil paint on canvas
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
2016
Watercolor
Winter 2017, I wrote my first song, ‘Something You Should Know’. After working on the lyrics, production and recording for two years here it is!
Link to Website
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
Photograph/Scanned Image
This is a “still life” of the fish market at my local Chinese grocery store. It is a wet, slimy, strange, intimidating, and magnificent place.
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
An abstract piece with a collage element, created from splicing a collaborative image. It invokes a sense of depth and the condensation of space.
Oil paint and paper on paper
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
In “Buried,” I used collage and layering to express the haunting suspicion of a seemingly ordinary event. The nostalgia oblivious bliss.
Mixed Media: paper collage with ink and watercolor
The great horned owl is found at Stanford and throughout the Americas and is named for its distinctive ear tufts.
machine embroidery on cotton fabric
This poem is dedicated to street children in Andhra Pradesh, India, who continue to face extraordinary barriers in education, health, and security. Link to Artwork
Creative Writing (Poetry)
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
Ink and print on wood
This painting speaks to how beauty lies in impermanence, contrasting eternal mountains and passing mist.
ink on rice paper; poetry
Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.
2018
Digital Photographs
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
song / soundscape
Episode 1 of an upcoming mystery micro-film series
2022
Short Film
This piece depicts a fictionalized memory of my grandfather, who I only knew through his woven hats and birds passed down through my family.
Oil Paint on Canvas
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
Photograph
This drawing was an attempt to capture my feelings about Stanford: an intimidating fortress of possibilities.
Markers on paper