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Helen He '23
Location: Lathrop 24/7 Study Room
2022
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
2019
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
2018
Oil paint on canvas
This work was featured at a solo show with New Image Art in West Hollywood. You are welcome to share any of the work on my Instagram (L.SongWu)
2023
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 piece is of my neighbor’s beagle, Clyde. She has two dogs, and the other is named Bonnie!
2016
Colored pencil
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
This series was taken at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion.
Series of Photographs
This drawing is a representation of a fractal called a Julia set, which has been rendered out of plants and other organic elements.
Markers on paper
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.
Digital Photographs
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
Photograph of Man in Paris
Kumari, the living Goddess of Nepal, is not allowed to speak to those who worship her, yet her glowing eyes depict that she has so much to tell us.
Graphite
This is the place no one would want to miss.
In Guam, an invasive species, the rhinoceros beetle, kills many of the island’s trees. I collage over images of trees to meditate on this loss.
2020
Digital inkjet print
Knowledge allows the mind to bloom.
This song is a unique take on John Coltrane’s ‘Impressions’ in terms of instrumentation, style, and genre.
Link to Website
Guitar recording with electronic drums and synths
I love the idea of a personal brand, especially in 2016.
2014
Color Film
This piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
Shriram California photos
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