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Helen He '23
This piece was inspired by the many rooftop cafes and stunning views of the Bosphorus River while I was exploring Istanbul on a summer vacation.
2017
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
By Helen He '23
Our limbs perform so many tasks yet we rarely take a moment to recognize the inner workings that make these movements possible.
Link to Website
2019
Acrylic tube, yarn, metal hardware, wood, epoxy resin
A close-up, multi-colored rendering of Eppendorf tubes illustrates that Lab Life is not as monochromatic as it appears.
Oil paint on Canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
2018
Photoshop
Released some restless energy onto paper with this portrait sketch.
2020
Graphite on Paper
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.
2022
Graphite
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
Mimicking the beauty of bioluminescence.
Digital Photography
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
Oil paint on canvas
A collage with the background of a digital re-illustration of Hokusai’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa to portray our poor disregard and care of Earth.
Digital illustration and collage
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
2024
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
This is a painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
Oil Paint on Canvas
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
2015
Mixed Media
Lucky to witness a green Dish.
These photos will never be published in a journalistic publication – familiar scenes on campus but different, the other side of palm tree paradise?
Photograph of campus scenes
Inspired by the strange reflection of an empty glass sitting on a table, this is a piece is about power and powerlessness—control and lack of it.
Acrylic on canvas
These collages were created from material gathered from a variety of found sources—primarily Life, National Geographic, and Time magazines.
Collage & ink pen
The mural shows Nangeli – an Ezhava Dalit woman, who had cut off her one breast in protest against the breast tax system in Travancore, Kerala.
Mural
A classic San Francisco house is bathed in orange light at sunset.
Oil paint on panel
The cellphone becomes a monumental, invasive aspect of experiences (especially in nature), yet is so integral in shaping memories.
iPhone photographs, collaged on Photoshop