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Helen He '23
Location: Main Quad
2023
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
2018
Oil Paint on Canvas
A visual exploration of ZIP, a drug currently in development used to treat PTSD by directly erasing targeted memories.
Mixed Media
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
Link to Website
2017
Environmental Photographs
You have pomegranate trees in your backyard, well so do I. Your family can’t afford to live in the Bay Area, well neither can mine…You’re just like me
2024
Oil 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.
2020
Digital Collage
Pinned parts of a traditional Vietnamese dress cut to my measurements. Through deconstruction, functionality and familiarity are lost.
Charcoal and Mixed Media on Salvaged Cotton and Organza
A three panel survey of a new environment.
Acrylic on Canvas (Three 5ft x 4ft panels) 60 x 144 in
This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
2022
Water Color on Paper
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
This is a “still life” of the fish market at my local Chinese grocery store. It is a wet, slimy, strange, intimidating, and magnificent place.
Acrylic on Canvas
This is a picture a created from 40 raw pictures I took of the same fruit cup. Compiling all 40 images into one allowed me to show everything in focus
Digital Photograph
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
Oil on Canvas
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
2016
Digital Visual Art
This piece emerged from a desire to merge figurative and abstract forms. (there are some flaws in the .jpg, if needed I can retake pictures)
2015
I made this painting with an attempt to capture the vibrant feeling of spring and awakening. It’s a reminder of the beauty and color of life!
2014
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
De-identified photograph taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
Photograph
Winter 2017, I wrote my first song, ‘Something You Should Know’. After working on the lyrics, production and recording for two years here it is!
2019
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.
Colorful shapes of San Francisco buildings are highlighted by a bright sunny day.
Oil paint on canvas