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Helen He '23
Location: East Asia Library
2021
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.
2022
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Mice own your belongings at night.
2016
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.
Link to Website
Photography
Mount Daly in Snowmass, Colorado
Gouache paint on watercolor paper
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
I made this painting in Iceland as part of my Chappell-Lougee arts project. It is a portrait of a glacier in the glacier lagoon known as Jökulsárlón.
Mixed media (oil paint, charcoal, pastel, grass) on canvas
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
2020
colored pencil, poetry
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
Environmental Photographs
This is a painting of inception as an artist at the Louvre Museum recreates “The Death of Sardanapalus” by Delacroix, a little boy looking up in awe.
Acrylic on Canvas
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
Oil Paint on Canvas
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
2019
Photograph
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
2023
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
I was looking for a subject I could depict using my new ink pens, and this sculpture was perfect because it included lots of shadows and some colors.
Ink Pen
Pair of multimaterial CNC dragonflies (brass, copper, aluminum, steel). The dragonflies explore age and rebirth through corrosion.
2024
Sculpture
This piece looks into the intersection of queerness and religion in the age of the internet and digital upbringing.
Interactive Digital Work
I captured this while camping in Colorado. Upside down the sunrise reflected in the mist covered water reminded me of Earth’s curvature from space.
2015
Digital Photograph
Shriram California photos
Digital photographs
A classic San Francisco house is bathed in orange light at sunset.
Oil paint on panel
I drew some random kid I found on a Youtube thumbnail. I think it was an Omeleto video.
Colored Pencil on Paper, Digital