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Helen He '23
Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This piece depicts a fictionalized memory of my grandfather, who I only knew through his woven hats and birds passed down through my family.
2023
Oil Paint on Canvas
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
Link to Website
2021
Projection Installation
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
2022
Photography
Inspired by individuality and body empowerment. Work focuses on abstraction of human form and color.
2019
Acrylic on canvas
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A visual exploration of ZIP, a drug currently in development used to treat PTSD by directly erasing targeted memories.
2018
Mixed Media
A self-portrait composed of identity objects: rings from my mother, the teapot on my coffee table, the graphic on my favorite t-shirt, etc.
Digital Collage
This drawing for me is meant to capture some of the dynamic processes I have witnesses in the Cosmos.
Watercolor and black ink
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!
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
This was a fun illustration that I polished up for International Day of the Girl this year (October 11)!
2016
Digital art
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
2017
Pen and Marker
Vero is a UG2 custodial worker on campus who I tutor through habla. I hoped to display her as I have grown to know her: strong and compelling.
every part of this earth is a surrogate for the people that helped create iteach building reflects the community that built it
Acrylic on Canvas
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
A surreal portrayal of the cost of modern designer fashion culture.
2015
Scratchboard
A watercolor painting of Stanford Campus
Acrylic Painting
Inspired by the works of Nina Katchadourian, this piece uses materials scavenged from the Stanford campus to explore the definition of “city.”
Paper Maps on Cardboard
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
The Countour of White Sands NP
Photograph