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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
Winter 2017, I wrote my first song, ‘Something You Should Know’. After working on the lyrics, production and recording for two years here it is!
Link to Website
2019
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
2018
Oil paint on canvas
This song is a unique take on John Coltrane’s ‘Impressions’ in terms of instrumentation, style, and genre.
2016
Guitar recording with electronic drums and synths
Location: Law School terrace
2020
Digital Illustration
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
History is tied to humanity. There is something heartening about a city that takes pride in its past.
acrylic on canvas
“Oxymoron” defies norms with the bond between a fierce girl warrior and her majestic dragon companion, embodying unity amidst contrast. Link to Artwork
2024
Watercolors and inkpen on mixed media paper
I made these photos at the abandoned Oppenheimer film set in Ghost Ranch, NM. Downwinders in NM harmed by test radiation remain uncompensated by RECA.
2023
35mm Photography
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
A faceless woman in a room of South Vietnamese soldiers
2022
Graphite on Paper
“Ritual” is an unfinished game prototype that is one piece of a meta-narrative that unfolds as the viewer explores the file directory containing it.
Interactive narrative horror game/file explorer experience
Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.
Digital Photographs
This photography series depicts the four indigenous Khmer women at Stanford, invisibility, and the consequent strong community we formed.
Photography Series
Representation of an Asian woman navigating a worldwide pandemic, situated in the centre of racial prejudice, capitalism, & social media connectivity.
Scanned magazine collage, colour pencils, and pen on Sketchbook
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
An abstract piece with a collage element, created from splicing a collaborative image. It invokes a sense of depth and the condensation of space.
Oil paint and paper on paper
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
In “Buried,” I used collage and layering to express the haunting suspicion of a seemingly ordinary event. The nostalgia oblivious bliss.
Mixed Media: paper collage with ink and watercolor
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel