Helen is an emerging artist who specializes in ceramic vessels and forms. She manipulates porcelain bodies through the synchronized movement of hand and clay.

Helen gravitates towards topics surrounding the human condition and employs her interests in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience in her art practice. In excavation of our unconscious and conscious thoughts and processes, she experiments with the (in)expression of (e)motion through the vessel:

Vessel (noun)

a container; a person into whom some quality is infused;
a watercraft;
a tube in which a body fluid is contained and circulated.

Each vessel begins as an essence that transforms from a feeling, thought, or other unarticulated moment in time, into an emotive body of water. The body evolves coil by coil, as a signal passing through a nerve or a wave directed by the ocean current. Each body has translated emotion into its own variants of color, depth, and volatility.

Just as we are unaware until a feeling is actionable in our minds or through our bodies, the emergence of a tangible vessel presents an intersection between the unconscious and the conscious.

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Through the combined performance of hand-building (F) vessels and wheel-throwing (M) functional pieces, she responds to traditional gender relationships and power dynamics; considering method, form, and function.