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Helen He '23
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This painting is in honor of Ahina and all the women that spend years wishing for a day at school.
2017
46″ x 32”
Roses bloom from her cuts.
2018
Photoshop
A cat in a Japanese restaurant.
2019
3D computer graphics
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I assemble impressions gathered during my time in Chavín de Huántar.
Digital Visual Art
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
Often, I find myself missing the changing of seasons. But if I just look closely, signs of autumn are all around.
Nature Photography
This is a painting I did for the Congressional Art Competition. The painting is of my mother’s horse JR on my last ride on him before he died.
Link to Website
2014
Acrylic on canvas 24″x 24″
Machines roar and metal parts clang away in the background in this artwork as an enormous robot is constructed before the eyes of a young spectator.
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
“I’ve loved you since the day I met you”
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
Oil Paint on Canvas
The girl who depicts prosperity is looking beyond her world into one that’s suppressed by indigence, because to solve a problem you must face it.
acrylic on canvas
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
Photograph
De-identified photograph taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
2015
Girl meets whale.
This work is a triptych of body parts from several acclaimed works by Renaissance artists. The famous works are reimagined in a modern style.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This piece tackles the topic of invisible disabilities and the stigma that many invisibly disabled people, myself included, face.
Photograph on Canvas, Embroidery
Abstract photography with the goal of rendering mundane objects unrecognizable.
Photography
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
2022
Acrylic on canvas
Seeing the majestic elephants in Kenya was one of my favorite memories from my trip, and I loved depicting the different textures of the landscape.
2016
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
Pencil and paper