TRISH

I was not sure of the venue when we did the interview on KTOE as I had not made the arrangements. The show is simply call "Trish", an afternoon show on community events and issues. Sue Chambers, one very busy woman is a weekly guest on the show as a representative of the local arts community. Coming in we walked through a maze of small hallways and sat down. Escourted by Sue we passed Trish in an office dimly lit. The place was very quiet and layed back. Trish met us just outside the studio, chatted with us a couple of minutes and then started preperations inside the studio. Trish commondering like a Space Shuttle pilot was flipping swiches, turning dials, and viewing screens. Then the critical second came, reminiscent of Michael Keaton in Beetlguise, Trish smiles, "It's Showtime". Together Trish and Sue asked the visably nervous Helen questions about her art while simutaneously viewing her work. Helen did an excellant job only stumbling a couple of times. The show went off quickly and smoothly.

Helen has entered a whole new world in the past year. In addition to this program and the shows, she even gave a speech/interview in front of a crowd of well over one hundred people at the Stakeholders meeting of the South Central Community Based Initiative group. She has done two shows with SCCBI and we would like to thank them for all they have done for her. This coming year could be filled with some amazing events in Helen's life. I will try and do my part to make this all happen.

The work shown here is called "MACHINE" and is actually one of my favorites. It is simple and complex at the same time. For me it represents our technology of the past, obsolete, and forgotten. A relic of the industrial age it sits alone in nothingness while at the same time giving evidence it was a part of a living and vibrant civilization.

Gerald