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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
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
2024
Oil on Canvas
I love the idea of a personal brand, especially in 2016.
Color Film
Released some restless energy onto paper with this portrait sketch.
Graphite on Paper
Colorful shapes of San Francisco buildings are highlighted by a bright sunny day.
2022
Oil paint on canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
2018
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light.
2016
Photo with artistic editing
I made this painting with an attempt to capture the vibrant feeling of spring and awakening. It’s a reminder of the beauty and color of life!
Oil on canvas
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
Graphite and watercolor on paper
This print came from a colored pencil drawing I made for a friend. I thought it’d be sweet to make a sort of postcard from it.
Four color Riso print
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.
acrylic 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
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
2023
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
Pinned parts of a traditional Vietnamese dress cut to my measurements. Through deconstruction, functionality and familiarity are lost.
Charcoal and Mixed Media on Salvaged Cotton and Organza
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
Oil Paint on Canvas
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
monotype on paper
This image plays with scale, texture, and the physicality of water.
Growing up in Iran taught me that limitation breed creativity. I tried to embody the same lesson by using alternative printing methods in the darkroom
Black & white photography