Helga Butzer Felleisen
Drawing and Sculpture
Initially trained as an archaeologist, reconstructing environments, beliefs, and identities, my work as an artist continues to focus on social matters, in particular our temporal sense of identity. It juxtaposes the familiar and the unknown, the conscious and the subconscious; it invokes meditation and contemplation.
My medium of choice is paper, both for its history and its strength, but also for its ephemeral quality. My works of hand-cut paper are metaphors for past and future time; they are about moving through layers of information, of meaning, of perspective. They emphasize the fragile nature of what is lost and retrieved, and how we choose to reinvent it.
The natural world and artifacts we create in relation to that world inspire
and influence my work. The simplicity of line in nature speaks to us in
a way that is intuitive. It is about wandering and discovery. I follow and
respond.