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Helen He '23
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
2022
Oil paint on panel
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
2014
Pencil and paper
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
Sea Glass is a poem I wrote in high school about fearing going to college. I transformed it into a book with watercolor paintings and text designs.
2023
Art book
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
2019
This photography series depicts the four indigenous Khmer women at Stanford, invisibility, and the consequent strong community we formed.
Link to Website
Photography Series
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
Inspired by Stanford’s Romanesque architecture and towering palm trees, I wanted to capture the university’s vibrant energy and beauty.
Pair of multimaterial CNC dragonflies (brass, copper, aluminum, steel). The dragonflies explore age and rebirth through corrosion.
2024
Sculpture
This self portrait addresses my invisible disability and the words around me are a mix of medical statements and emotional entries from my journal.
Graphite on Paper
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
2017
Pen and Marker
cloudy with a chance of love
Digital illustration
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
ink on paper, collage
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
Oil paint on found wood
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
Lush layers of volanoes, forest fires, tsunamis are interwoven with snarling dogs, invoking chaotic and powerful forces of nature. 30″ x 40″.
Oil paint and thread on canvas
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
A light spring shower wakes the soul. Inspired by the Adobe MAX + Inktober 2018 October 15th Prompt: light.
Photoshop
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
2021
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story