View Public Art
Saturday, October 26
Buy tickets
Start Making
By Topic
Career Pathways
Other Opportunities
Learn More
About Us
People
Connect with us
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 process exploration of dye sublimation to print the iconic “Bliss” wallpaper of the operating system Windows XP onto constructed shutters.
2017
Sculpture: wood, white house paint, printed acrylic sheet, venetian window structure
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
2022
Acrylic paint on canvas
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
February is a gray month, but these flowers bloomed anyway. Link to Artwork
2024
sublimation print on synthetic blue satin
How do you heal after being discarded?
2021
Acrylic on Canvas
This project was done on a ten-day summer trip to my family’s ranch.
Link to Website
Environmental Photographs
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
2019
monotype on paper
These photographs were taken in Aegina, Greece. During ancient times Aegina was a rival of Athens, the great sea power of the era.
Digital Photographs
This is a photo taken in the Main Quad.
2018
This symbolizes unity, being made by members of the Black Community. South African word, Umbutu, translates to togetherness or “I am because we are”
2023
Acrylic on Paper
This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”
Vector drawing and photography
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
Oil Paint on Canvas
This is the first of an ongoing watercolor series completed under shelter-in-place, based on photos that friends have sent of their favorite views.
Watercolor
*sixth photograph of Hidden Gems series
Series of Photographs
This piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
Taken in Alberta, Canada. My hope is not to showcase landscapes but to acknowledge that Earth’s beauty surrounds us.
Photograph
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
song / soundscape
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
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
Video Art (with sound)