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Helen He '23
Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
I took this photograph in a forrest in Germany. I wonder what the dog is doing right now.
Link to Website
2016
Color Film
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Mount Daly in Snowmass, Colorado
2022
Gouache paint on watercolor paper
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
2018
Photograph
BEAM Stanford-related photos
2019
Digital photographs
Not sure if this counts, but I created a Stanford logo made from many smaller photos. I can make another one, from more interesting photos.
Digital Photograph
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
Acrylic paint on canvas
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
Indigo mountains and a somber gray sky are reflected in the clear water of Lake Tahoe.
Oil paint on canvas
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Short Film
This piece is a manifestation of the growth and maturity, both physically and mentally, found in adolescence. It mimics the flowering of youth.
Photograph of a physical collage (paper, printed image)
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
2017
Pen and Marker
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
2023
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
This is a collective of poems written while contemplating the relationship between the natural, humans, death, continuity, carnage, and hope. Link to Artwork
Poetry
A fun, surreal piece exploring themes related to the modern food industry.
2014
Watercolor on Paper
Shriram California photos
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
song / soundscape
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
2015
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
Ink Resist on Paper