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Helen Kwah Bio & Statement
I am an arts-based educational researcher and artist based in Jersey City, NJ.In my work, I am interested in the condition of being seen as ‘other’ and how being ‘othered’ marks and shapes racial, gender, and ethnic identities. Through visual and physical media, I explore questions of how 'otherness' is represented, enacted, experienced and ultimately resisted or refused.
I started drawing trees to attend to their textures, their breath, their strange and resilient architectures…
I view trees as invisible workers in our midst, involuntary immigrants planted to clean the air and stand in for nature in engineered environments. When trees are inconvenient, they are rooted out or hacked into but they push back, sprouting new limbs and masses...
For me, trees are an example of how those whom we treat as objects can and do resist.*
*Fred Moten, 2003, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
I started drawing trees to attend to their textures, their breath, their strange and resilient architectures…
I view trees as invisible workers in our midst, involuntary immigrants planted to clean the air and stand in for nature in engineered environments. When trees are inconvenient, they are rooted out or hacked into but they push back, sprouting new limbs and masses...
For me, trees are an example of how those whom we treat as objects can and do resist.*
*Fred Moten, 2003, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
