Two Helens (2019)

12” x 32” Digitally manipulated drawing

Limited Canvas Edition of 5 $235

“Two Helens” is sourced in Yosuf Karsh’s photographs of Helen Hayes and of Helen Keller. I made charcoal drawings from his images, then divided them into sections and rearranged them by chance.

The fragmentation and recombination of the base images speaks to the unreliability of our mental images of our elders — of the near-truths, misattributions and utter fabrications that make up our stories of our predecessors.