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Yifei He '22
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
2019
Photograph
By Yifei He '22
This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.
2016
acrylic on canvas
A sense of colorful peace
2018
painting on computer
I painted a woman who is battered but is pushing herself back up with resiliency. She sends a message of hope to those facing difficulties.
2017
acrylic on wood
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
This work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
Oil on Canvas
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
Taken at Baylands Nature Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a student and a community member.
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
gouache (two images combined digitally)
Princess Going Digital considers queer girlhood on the playground of the laptop screen, a site for unapologetic self-documentation and portraiture.
2023
Gouache on Paper
inspired by Mondays, morning showers, and an addiction to caffeine.
Digital illustration
This work is about rupture and disruption, whether environmental, familial, or linguistic. I wanted to think visually about over-saturation.
India Ink on Paper
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
Digital Visual Art
This drawing for me is meant to capture some of the dynamic processes I have witnesses in the Cosmos.
Watercolor and black ink
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)
cloudy with a chance of love
Location: Law School terrace
Digital Illustration
This is a collage I made featuring my favorite colors. There are bits of paper popping off of the page!
2021
Digital Photograph of Paper Collage
The Andromeda constellation re-imagined, through drawing, through burning holes in paper; how do we impose humanity upon the stars?
Charcoal on paper; flame on tracing paper
Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.
v.c.a – an ongoing project and exploration of visual communication through abstraction
Graphic Design