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Helen He '23
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.
2019
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
By Helen He '23
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
February is a gray month, but these flowers bloomed anyway. Link to Artwork
2024
sublimation print on synthetic blue satin
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
2020
Photograph
Hide my anger behind flowers // my anxiety behind moths // my sadness behind ▓▓▓
2018
Photoshop
This painting was an exercise to try and use simple, yet bold brushstrokes to capture the essence of the moment.
Oil paint on canvas
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
Link to Website
2022
Photography
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.
window screens, oil paint
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
2017
Oil on Canvas
This series was taken at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion.
Series of Photographs
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
2014
Pencil and paper
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
Oil paint on panel
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
Oil Paint on Canvas
Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.
Digital Photographs
This work is about rupture and disruption, whether environmental, familial, or linguistic. I wanted to think visually about over-saturation.
India Ink on Paper
This drawing is a representation of a fractal called a Julia set, which has been rendered out of plants and other organic elements.
Markers on paper
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.
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
Projection Installation
This self portrait depicts the artist in self reflection. The couple gazes forward, as hidden collaged images loom behind, reminding them of the past.
Acrylic and Collage on Canvas 30 x 40 in