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Helen He '23
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
2017
Digital Collage
This piece depicts how the new digital, photo-sharing era fetishizes Asian women against their will, especially in their traditional attire.
2022
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
Photograph
v.c.a – an ongoing project and exploration of visual communication through abstraction
2016
Graphic Design
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
Watercolor
This is a photo taken in the Main Quad.
2018
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
De-identified photograph taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
2015
February is a gray month, but these flowers bloomed anyway. Link to Artwork
2024
sublimation print on synthetic blue satin
A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.
window screens, oil paint
This is a “still life” of the fish market at my local Chinese grocery store. It is a wet, slimy, strange, intimidating, and magnificent place.
Link to Website
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
Observing simple, everyday practices in a new country and being dumbfounded by them led me to write this piece on everyday norms and practices here Link to Artwork
Poetry
This is the moment when the smallest to the biggest invisibilities came to life, and unity in faith and science was apparent.
Wax Pastel on Wood
A woman in dark clothing sits on the graffitied ruins of Sutro Baths, staring into the soft, ethereal waves illuminated by warm sunlight.
Oil paint on canvas
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
2019
Oil on canvas
I drew some random kid I found on a Youtube thumbnail. I think it was an Omeleto video.
Colored Pencil on Paper, Digital
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
2014
Pencil and paper
A light spring shower wakes the soul. Inspired by the Adobe MAX + Inktober 2018 October 15th Prompt: light.
Photoshop
A series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
code poems