ZAK HELENSKE


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The Purple Lines Mean it's Poison, 75 x 15 x 20 in
Visible on the Ground, 74 x 15 x 16.5 in
Kings Eat Kings, 78 x 17 x 7 in
Outdoor Thoughts, 28 x 6 x 6.5 in
We Sold our Seeds to the Poison Company, 63 x 15 x 13 in
Growing Sideways, 66 x 22 x 16

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STATEMENT

My work describes a disconnection between our built and wild landscapes. A disconnection between ourselves and our place. Interrupted by a digital worldview that is individually unsustainable and collectively viral.

It is about action and labor, energy source and energy exhaustion. I find clarity in the manic activity of an art practice and am grounded by the physical intellectualization of labor, material, and creative research.   

I objectify the landscape as a way to show reverence for our forever old relationship. I celebrate it with gratitude, melancholy, and joy. These sculptures, reference volunteerism as inevitable growth, volume as history, shape as behavior, and plant as object. 

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A man with dark hair and beard, wearing a black sweater and a white hoodie, sits outdoors at a wooden table with various carved wood pieces, in a rural area with trees and an old shed in the background.

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Black wooden flower sculpture mounted on a white wall inside a building.