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Helen He '23
Location: Lathrop 24/7 Study Room
2022
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
2019
Oil on canvas
Video edited from found footage reflecting on the repetition, absurdity, and futility of everyday life. Duration: 05:05
Link to Website
2018
Video Art
These small paintings were quick, gestural sketches that explore the beauty of the feminine form.
I wanted to render a tree during a vibrant morning on The Farm from a design perspective.
2016
Ink Resist
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
2017
Environmental Photographs
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
2023
Oil on wood panel
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
2024
Acrylic on Canvas
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
Graphite and watercolor on paper
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
Oil Paint on Canvas
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
Photograph of Landscape
A fun, surreal piece exploring themes related to the modern food industry.
2014
Watercolor on Paper
An ongoing series attempting to create an emotive instant through color theory principles
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.
Acrylic on canvas 24″x 24″
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
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
Oil on Canvas
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
Oil paint on found wood
Taken on a Sophomore College trip to Tanzania, a Maasai junior warrior dons the traditional post-circumcision black robes and white face paint.
Photograph
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
Digital Collage
February is a gray month, but these flowers bloomed anyway. Link to Artwork
sublimation print on synthetic blue satin