Helen Sear

Helen Sear originally begun her photographic practice from a fine art background.She explores ideas of vision, touch, and the re-presentation of the nature of experience, combining drawing, lens based media and digital technologies. Her work based around nature is very interesting for my he loves me he loves me not ideas. She has a very unusual way of looking at nature and connections between humans and nature. By using mix media she creates a look of almost like a painting with the use of superimposing different

From a series of landscapes and figures, two separate photographs are superimposed, the image behind appearing to float as a net or veil on the surface by a process of hand drawing/erasing in the computer. One photograph depicts the back of a head, the other a landscape both taken in different locations, the partial erasure of one reveals an incomplete picture of the other.

 

 

 relationships between nature and culture, mythology and technology have been at the forefront of Helen’s art practice, as has the representation of landscape as a gendered experience. 

 

'I have developed this approach of a double time of image making, drawing parallels between the speed and instant of the photograph/digital image and the economy of information technology. The reconstruction of these images through touch and the labour of the hand, signals the return to a more primitive and bodily experience.'