When looking at Robert Havell Jr.’s “Great Blue Heron” (1834), the concept of immigration may not necessarily immediately come to mind. Yet in novelist Lan Samantha Chang’s 2023 short story “Helen, Heron,” this experience of leaving one’s homeland is at the forefront, recontextualizing Havell Jr.’s naturalist artwork of a bird native to North America through the eyes of an imaginary Taiwanese immigrant as she makes her way through the foreign landscape of the United States.