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Helen He '23
Girl meets whale.
2017
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
A study of a tree for Drawing I in charcoal, exploring silhouettes and shading.
2018
Charcoal on Paper
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood sculpture
Sky River is a digital reinterpretation of Japanese graphic designer Koichi Sato’s style based on minimalist forms and gradients.
2019
Blender 3D render
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
This drawing was an attempt to capture my feelings about Stanford: an intimidating fortress of possibilities.
Markers on paper
Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.
Digital Visual Art
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
2024
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
This series was taken at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion.
Series of Photographs
This is the place no one would want to miss.
Photo
It’s a shame if you did not get around time to see Hoover Tower in different lights.
A surreal portrayal of the cost of modern designer fashion culture.
2015
Scratchboard
This 5-page word-art series explores the way emotion and memory lives in the body through experimentation with colour.
2023
Mixed media (watercolor, charcoal pencils, pencil) on sketch paper
Vero is a UG2 custodial worker on campus who I tutor through habla. I hoped to display her as I have grown to know her: strong and compelling.
Oil Paint on Canvas
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
Link to Website
Photography
This piece tackles the topic of invisible disabilities and the stigma that many invisibly disabled people, myself included, face.
Photograph on Canvas, Embroidery
Anatomy of the Vogue is a portraiture study of clinical anatomy that bridges human and corpse through a play on the fashion industry.
2016
Colored Pencil
Commenting on our smallness in comparison to all we have to face – be it a pandemic, the vastness of the ocean, or history. Our smallness is humbling
2020
acrylic on cardboard
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
Oil on Canvas
This is a study of Auguste Rodin’s “Bust of St. John the Baptist,” in an attempt to capture the densely textured look of the original.
Charcoal, white chalk on toned paper