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Yifei He '22
Taken at Baylands Nature Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a student and a community member.
2019
Photograph
By Yifei He '22
This painting was an exercise to try and use simple, yet bold brushstrokes to capture the essence of the moment.
2018
Oil paint on canvas
This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.
2022
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
Acrylic on canvas
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
Inspired by the works of Nina Katchadourian, this piece uses materials scavenged from the Stanford campus to explore the definition of “city.”
Paper Maps on Cardboard
This is a surreal meditation on nature’s comforting power as a sanctuary for people in need of healing.
Pencil on paper
A portrait of a good dog who has traveled a very long way.
2020
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
Oil on Canvas
I loved this photograph my mom took on our trip to Kenya, and I wanted to recreate the beautiful designs on the fabric here.
2016
Charcoal
every part of this earth is a surrogate for the people that helped create iteach building reflects the community that built it
Acrylic on Canvas
A portrait of a good dog.
India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.
2017
Enamel Paint
I took this photograph in a forrest in Germany. I wonder what the dog is doing right now.
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Color Film
In “Buried,” I used collage and layering to express the haunting suspicion of a seemingly ordinary event. The nostalgia oblivious bliss.
2023
Mixed Media: paper collage with ink and watercolor
This drawing was an attempt to capture my feelings about Stanford: an intimidating fortress of possibilities.
Markers 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
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
A reflection of my Korean heritage in the new digital age, and how technology distorts my self-perception and my relationship with my culture.
2021
This is a collective of poems written while contemplating the relationship between the natural, humans, death, continuity, carnage, and hope. Link to Artwork
Poetry
The setting sun casts a firey light onto the skyline of San Francisco, with Coit Tower visible over the hills of the city.