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Yifei He '22
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
By Yifei He '22
This is about alienation and emotional expression as a stone, cold figure looks blankly to a wall of artificial expressions in a room.
2021
Digital 3D Render
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
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Projection Installation
I took this photo at the Palo Alto Caltrain station in the fall. I used black ink and a black and white filter to provide an “outside of time” look.
2016
Digital Photograph
I love the idea of a personal brand, especially in 2016.
2014
Color Film
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
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.
2020
Watercolor
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
Digital Visual Art
Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.
2015
Mixed Media
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.
2017
Watercolor and Pencil
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
2024
Video Art
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
Digital painting
Two girls, Cloud and Moon, are safe in space.
Photoshop
This series was taken at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion.
Series of Photographs
A projection of water drapes over a foot, the painting interweaves the physical and digital sensation.
Oil on canvas
Seeing the majestic elephants in Kenya was one of my favorite memories from my trip, and I loved depicting the different textures of the landscape.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A close-up, multi-colored rendering of Eppendorf tubes illustrates that Lab Life is not as monochromatic as it appears.
Oil paint on Canvas
“David” is a 3D bust loosely based on Michelangelo’s piece of the same name. Inspired by the music video of “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits.
Blender 3D Render
A process exploration of dye sublimation to print the iconic “Bliss” wallpaper of the operating system Windows XP onto constructed shutters.
Sculpture: wood, white house paint, printed acrylic sheet, venetian window structure
These photographs were taken in Aegina, Greece. During ancient times Aegina was a rival of Athens, the great sea power of the era.
Digital Photographs