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Helen He '23
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
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
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
2024
Oil on Canvas
I painted a woman who is battered but is pushing herself back up with resiliency. She sends a message of hope to those facing difficulties.
2017
acrylic on wood
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
2019
Photography
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.
Oil Paint on Canvas
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
Giant ladle meant to represent heaven, a room where everyone figured out that to feed themselves, they have to feed each other. + Harley Quinn’s bat
Wood sculpture, Metal Sculpture. Can also display photos attached instead
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
A collection of 8 poetic pieces that pull from, build upon, and draw inspiration from the Brown queer experience of a drag artist at a PWI. Link to Artwork Link to Website
Collection of Poetry
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
A coloring pages for people to color and de-stress:) These pages are part of my project Coloring to Cope for the COVID-19 art grant.
2022
Digital
Girl meets whale.
India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.
Enamel Paint
This means “my cabbage” in Russian, and the word also means “money”. This was inspired by a photo from r/peopleofwalmart.
Digital Art
Colorful shapes of San Francisco buildings are highlighted by a bright sunny day.
Oil paint on canvas
A reflection of my Korean heritage in the new digital age, and how technology distorts my self-perception and my relationship with my culture.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A visual exploration of ZIP, a drug currently in development used to treat PTSD by directly erasing targeted memories.
2018
Mixed Media
Episode 1 of an upcoming mystery micro-film series
Short Film
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
Graphite and watercolor on paper
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.