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Helen He '23
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
2017
Digital photography
The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.
Link to Website
2021
Photography
A portrait of a good dog.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Girl meets whale.
My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.
Released some restless energy onto paper with this portrait sketch.
Graphite on Paper
Past lovers who couldn’t be together grieve over “what was” and “what could have been”, learning each other’s rhythms tenderly for the first time.
2024
Oil on Canvas
Indigo mountains and a somber gray sky are reflected in the clear water of Lake Tahoe.
2022
Oil paint on canvas
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
gouache (two images combined digitally)
The setting sun casts a firey light onto the skyline of San Francisco, with Coit Tower visible over the hills of the city.
A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.
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
A portrait of a good dog who has traveled a very long way.
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
Digital Collage
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
Acrylic paint on canvas
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
Oil paint on panel
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.
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
Western media creates unrealistic expectations of perfection in avocados. In this painting, I seek to challenge and redefine avocado beauty standards.
2016
Oil on canvas
This piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
A woman in dark clothing sits on the graffitied ruins of Sutro Baths, staring into the soft, ethereal waves illuminated by warm sunlight.