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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
This piece depicts how TikTok primarily portrays a fetishized version of Asian women, leading to an uncertain digital future of complicated dynamics.
2022
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This piece is a manipulated photograph printed on metal.
Mixed Media on Metal
Night is when the imagination comes alive.
Digital Illustration
In a pre-show photoshoot for my roommate’s student classical Indian dance ensemble, Noopur, she “breaks character” during a pose.
2016
Photograph
Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.
2015
Mixed Media
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
Link to Website
2021
Projection Installation
The mural shows Nangeli – an Ezhava Dalit woman, who had cut off her one breast in protest against the breast tax system in Travancore, Kerala.
Mural
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
2018
Photoshop
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
An ongoing series attempting to create an emotive instant through color theory principles
2017
Acrylic on Canvas
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
This drawing shows the harsh lines of a cityscape being consumed by organic forms, suggesting that, try as we might, we cannot overpower nature.
Ink on Paper
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
Graphite and watercolor on paper
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
Ink and print on wood
Aluminum CNC machined monstera leaf inspired bottle opener. I promise it looks better than it sounds.
2024
Sculpture
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
Watercolor
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
Isolation, fear, and uncertainty are themes that come up more in our lives, seen through nighttime photos taken in the woods.
Photography