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Helen He '23
Location: Main Quad
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
Photograph
As we were walking through the streets in Rome, my mom noticed the harsh shadows hitting the restaurant in front of us, creating gorgeous colors.
2016
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This is a surreal meditation on nature’s comforting power as a sanctuary for people in need of healing.
2022
Pencil on paper
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
This is a collage I made featuring my favorite colors. There are bits of paper popping off of the page!
2021
Digital Photograph of Paper Collage
A sketched self-portrait replaced into its photographic context.
Graphite on Paper, Photograph
Oil on Canvas
These photos will never be published in a journalistic publication – familiar scenes on campus but different, the other side of palm tree paradise?
2018
Photograph of campus scenes
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
Photography
A visual exploration of ZIP, a drug currently in development used to treat PTSD by directly erasing targeted memories.
Mixed Media
This artwork examines the place of genetically modified organisms in modern society and how we view them, blurring the line between item and organism.
2014
fine-tip pen and watercolor on paper
This is a painting of inception as an artist recreates a Delacroix masterpiece, “The Death of Sardanapalus” with a little boy looking up in awe.
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
2015
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
A three panel survey of a new environment.
Acrylic on Canvas (Three 5ft x 4ft panels) 60 x 144 in
This self-portrait draws on the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe that I, as a latina, have a deeply personal, non-religious, relationship with.
Oil Paint on Canvas
She wipes the mask off after a long day.
Photoshop
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
This work is about rupture and disruption, whether environmental, familial, or linguistic. I wanted to think visually about over-saturation.
India Ink on Paper
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.