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Helen He '23
Night is when the imagination comes alive.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
Digital painting
Roses bloom from her cuts.
2018
Photoshop
At Bay is a student-created web series about the launch of a Stanford startup that goes horribly, horribly wrong.
Link to Website
2016
Still from a web series
Quad is always changing amazingly.
2017
Photo
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light.
Photo with artistic editing
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. –Robert Wyland
2023
Digital Media – Made in Procreate for Apple iPad
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
This is a painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
2022
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.
Photography
Cool portrait of girl trying to keep in her tears.
This is a painting I did for the Congressional Art Competition. The painting is of my mother’s horse JR on my last ride on him before he died.
2014
Acrylic on canvas 24″x 24″
This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.
acrylic on canvas
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
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
2024
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
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
I took this photo at the Palo Alto Caltrain station in the fall. I used black ink and a black and white filter to provide an “outside of time” look.
Digital Photograph
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
Oil paint on canvas
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
Video Art (with sound)
Rendering of a modern jazz pavilion, referencing the visual skeleton chord structure of jazz compositions.
Digital Rendering