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Helen He '23
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
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
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This drawing shows the harsh lines of a cityscape being consumed by organic forms, suggesting that, try as we might, we cannot overpower nature.
2017
Ink on Paper
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
2019
Photograph
This solo play premiered in Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and made its US debut in New York City where I won the award for ‘Best Emerging Actor’
2023
Photograph of Performance (solo play)
A portrayal of the death of Chaos as depicted in the Zhuangzi, who expired after Shu and Hu bored a new hole into him each day for seven days.
2015
Digital Visual Art
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)
Originally meant as a study of diffused light in a “nocturne” scene, this piece is a take on portraiture, figures, and landscape in one.
Oil Paint on Canvas
This 5-page word-art series explores the way emotion and memory lives in the body through experimentation with colour.
Mixed media (watercolor, charcoal pencils, pencil) on sketch paper
This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.
2022
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
2018
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
Acrylic paint on canvas
Collage exploring feminist and bioethical discussions of reproductive technologies. Previously featured at the Medicine & the Muse Student Symposium. Link to Artwork
2024
print
I am lucky enough to witness Lagunita being a real lake.
Photo
Thousands of stippled dots layer on each other to create each gargoyle and rooftop, coming together to reveal the magnificent, historical spire.
Pen and Ink
This is a theatrical self portrait. Fractured light plays off a calm, restrained figure, creating tension and a sense of impending violence. 24″ x 30″
Oil paint on canvas
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. –Robert Wyland
Digital Media – Made in Procreate for Apple iPad
This is a self portrait examining the complex nature of identity through both realistic forms and abstract shapes.
2016
Acrylic on Canvas
Taken on a Sophomore College trip to Tanzania, a Maasai junior warrior dons the traditional post-circumcision black robes and white face paint.