Zack Helwa

Carole

2011-10-30T22:34:00.002-04:00

Tessa

2011-10-30T22:32:00.003-04:00

Yosimite

2011-10-22T11:48:00.003-04:00

Carole

2011-09-11T18:08:00.002-04:00

Photo : Sculpture

2011-09-08T21:36:00.000-04:00

Inside : Out

2011-09-06T10:51:00.001-04:00

X-Ray scanned with diamonds interfering in scanner calibration

More X-Ray Scans

2011-09-05T17:13:00.003-04:00

X-Ray scanned with calibration adjustments

Ocean

2011-09-05T01:48:00.002-04:00

Photograph of a tarp with paint on it

Hangers

2011-09-05T01:22:00.004-04:00

Possibly of some use

Aviary

2011-09-05T00:43:00.000-04:00

My first video piece

III (Submerged : in Pink)

2011-09-05T00:31:00.005-04:00

Passing of time, Birth, Womb and the after life
part of a three part series

Found Bed

2011-09-04T20:04:00.004-04:00

Found today on my travels through boston

II (Adaptation : Time)

2011-09-04T19:35:00.001-04:00

A video using the passage of time and momentum that brings us from one point into the next. A transitional stage of life. It also tries to express dealing with age, ephemerality and nostalgia. A delicate description of constantly playing a piece of ourselves to hold a passing moment, when it is all too clear that everything changes and everything turns over.

Car door at Launchpad

2011-09-03T13:30:00.001-04:00

Photograph of a found car door

Dragon fly

2011-09-03T12:48:00.003-04:00

Photograph of a Dragonfly Wing using a scanner

Walls

2011-09-03T00:11:00.000-04:00

Awareness

Awareness II

x-Rays

2011-08-16T02:44:00.003-04:00

Photographs of x-rays taken with a scanner using calibration adjustments

Ok StudioA

2011-08-06T00:37:00.000-04:00

A fashion model I met in Romania

manikin

2011-08-06T00:30:00.002-04:00

Wax Sculptures

2011-07-28T22:53:00.004-04:00

New Ways

2011-05-06T07:46:00.002-04:00

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ~Vladimir Nabokov

Yeollow

2011-05-06T07:06:00.001-04:00

I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he’d say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles per hour and they jailed him for two days.Isn’t that funny, and sad, too? - Quote From Fehrenheit 451

Meditate

2011-05-06T07:04:00.000-04:00

Thoughts can slowly disappear and reappear but you will always be here my self

Circles and Triangles

2011-03-23T20:28:00.000-04:00

Everything is Everything Else

2011-03-23T19:58:00.000-04:00

Kindness will fill the heart

2011-03-01T03:09:00.001-05:00

Hands remember

2011-02-27T21:16:00.008-05:00

New Work in progress

2011-02-23T16:43:00.000-05:00

Together

2011-02-17T09:42:00.003-05:00

Hanging : Falling

2011-01-30T18:31:00.000-05:00

Foam

2011-01-12T22:40:00.002-05:00

House : Home

2011-01-09T19:41:00.001-05:00

Enclosed I

2011-01-08T21:35:00.001-05:00

Untitled

2011-01-08T20:53:00.001-05:00

2010-12-16T23:58:00.000-05:00

Wheel : Circle

2010-12-05T20:32:00.004-05:00

Time : Passing

2010-11-24T09:00:00.006-05:00

Collaboration with Michael Dalton

Time : Growth

2010-11-23T12:06:00.002-05:00

Universe : Aftermath

2010-11-23T12:02:00.003-05:00

Confined : Tree

2010-11-23T09:21:00.001-05:00

Styro

2010-10-14T08:09:00.001-04:00

newish olds just found

2010-10-07T00:52:00.002-04:00

New Panasonic Lumix Gf1 photos.

2010-10-02T22:04:00.004-04:00

spaces

2010-09-29T21:17:00.003-04:00

Empty : Spaces

Creates : Waste

Stuck : Thinking

Moves : Stages

Beginnings : ends

Shock : Denial: Numb

Grieve : Loss

Acceptance

Even After Death : Its normal

Protection : Pain

Over : Over : Over : Over : Over : Over

Resulted : Different : Outcome

Permanent

Absorb : Reality

Remembering : Focusing : Feelings

Letting Go

Purpose : Direction

Drifting through the day

Reaction : Loss

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Feeling : Fear

Anger : Depression

Insecurity : Panic : Worry : Crying : Anger : Depression

Trouble Letting Go

Never Come out

Drown: Function

Time : Has : Passed

Permission To Feel

All Things Must Pass

Long : Term

On : Your : Feet

Possible : Recover

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Future : Ahead

Movement : Forward

Little : Back

Steps

Comfort

Change is not a Linear Path

Feel : Good

Feel : Hurt

Realize : Things

Understand : Yourself

Deliberately : Conscious

Hold : On

Creative : Soulful : Playful

Unbearable : Painful : Permanent

Scary

Letting : GO

Display : Empty

2010-09-29T21:14:00.000-04:00

...

New outlook

2010-06-09T11:58:00.004-04:00

Breathe : Breathe deeper

Fire : To spark, jumpstart. Fly

Wind : A medium to swim in. surrounds me. mode of transportation

Water : A form of consciousness. Flexible and free. in my head its what I breathe.

Earth : Under my feet . used for resting

Electricity : Energy source. Can be manipulated. Static.

Breathe : Breathe Deep

Fire : Fly

Electricity : Static

Water : Consciousness

Wind : Transport

Earth : Resting Place

Aviary : Old Death New Life

Coming show

2010-05-08T16:57:00.002-04:00

Hmm

2010-03-24T12:35:00.002-04:00

moRZ

2010-03-24T12:33:00.002-04:00

CMEHA

2010-03-24T12:31:00.002-04:00

RZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

2010-03-24T08:51:00.002-04:00

New in snow...

2010-03-06T23:06:00.000-05:00

10

2010-02-28T01:17:00.000-05:00

2010-01-16T17:49:00.001-05:00

Work in progress

2010-01-12T14:27:00.002-05:00

DOOR

2009-12-23T11:04:00.003-05:00

Is this a retake?

Synesthesia

2009-12-20T17:45:00.001-05:00

A work in progress for the last 5 years hopefully ill have a series of this soon

Another version

2009-12-20T17:07:00.002-05:00

Some Umbrella Art in the park

2009-12-18T05:58:00.003-05:00

I just scanned some new negatives and here is an image. no where done yet

new image

2009-12-16T23:34:00.001-05:00

This is a study for an photo I am working on.

Some photos from a dangerous grounds production of a play called 3!

2009-12-13T23:52:00.001-05:00

Some of my Kulture

2009-12-01T22:23:00.003-05:00

This is some kombucha tea fermented from white tea and has a tiny bit of ginger in one of them. it seems like the ginger weakened on of the scobys and am not sure it turned out to well but the one only with white tea is pretty great. it has a bitter crispy Champagne like taste and grew a very healthy looking mother. now lets see how far i can spread this wealth and how far the mother will go before i mess up.

Eric

2009-10-30T18:07:00.001-04:00

Thom

2009-10-26T10:39:00.002-04:00

2009-10-25T05:24:00.003-04:00

Maine

2009-10-24T12:37:00.007-04:00

Burning Bush in the back yard

Accidently cut my hand washing dishes. Possibly Stigmata

MO!

2009-09-25T01:33:00.000-04:00

New OLD Images

2009-09-25T01:28:00.001-04:00

2009-09-19T03:02:00.000-04:00

Clock painting 1

2009-07-20T22:52:00.002-04:00

this painting is around 20 by 20 its kinda new and im using some oil finally

Monetary

2009-07-18T12:36:00.004-04:00

I've been looking a lot at money lately and their little drawings

land Limbo

2009-07-18T12:35:00.002-04:00

Washing Machine

2009-07-18T12:34:00.001-04:00

new ones

2009-07-18T12:33:00.001-04:00

Sailing

2009-07-18T12:02:00.003-04:00

Grow

2009-07-18T11:56:00.000-04:00

Time to Pass

2009-07-08T11:44:00.005-04:00

Heres another one of those. It took me a while to get that tree right. Im not so sure it works yet coz its pretty freshly made, but I think I like it for now. I also have another spread that I believe might be the first one of these unless there's an older drawing I found that can relate.

Hanging on a String

2009-07-08T11:39:00.001-04:00

Heartbreak Victim Guide3

2009-07-08T11:37:00.003-04:00

Kite

2009-07-08T11:30:00.000-04:00

Ant City

2009-07-08T00:22:00.005-04:00

I did this drawing based on a photograph I took of some grass and Minnesota from

a plane at night, superimposed together. The image made me think of ants and comparing their need to build a colony with our need to build towns and cities.

I would like to retake or crop this image though. I was thinking of making a city in some wheat grass Im growing too and use LED lights

Time to Kiss

2009-07-07T22:15:00.008-04:00

This is sort of a reinterpretation of Klimt's Painting called the kiss. This series of drawings are

all a mixture of drawings that are finished and studies for larger paintings and a few sculptures. Not sure which is which yet.

These have a lot to do with my experiences coming from relationships and the perception of time spent in them. Also the time that all the emotions involved take place. As much as time heals everything, time is also an on going thing that brings more to the table to deal with, where every moment, relationship, good times, bad times, they are linked into each other and the next moment to come. I also think of the ending of relationships when I look at these drawings. They are some sort of a reminder that all things must pass.

Heartbreak Victim Guide2

2009-07-07T11:12:00.002-04:00

Heartbreak Victim Guide

2009-07-07T10:23:00.005-04:00

* When victim has collapsed and cannot be lifted

* What to look for

* When the victim is standing or sitting

blurry game

2009-06-29T17:47:00.000-04:00

Time to Heal

2009-06-29T17:46:00.000-04:00

2009-06-22T23:23:00.003-04:00

This is a clip from my new video for Queens Connex

Exciting!!!!

2009-06-02T11:55:00.003-04:00

This one is for the children

2009-05-27T17:54:00.004-04:00

After photographing my grand parents and family in Romania, I took the interest of snooping around the building a bit and photographing a few of the people living there. I noticed the large amount of children who were either homeless or poor. Many were of Gypsy origins, and had no place to live.

Many of them were taking to the streets from surrounding homes and finding all sorts of games to play. They were constantly interacting with their surrounding and gave myself a lot of attention. They asked me what was I doing photographing the area? Wether I was able to take their picture for them and wether I was going to let them use my camera to take a few pictures? I was surprised that they were already so adapted to the digital world and kept asking me to show them the pictures I took at the back of my film camera.

Traveling around I saw many of these young children who didn't seem to have their families or guardians around them. I found out that there were many children who didn't have families in that area and that many families who were also living on the street were taking care of them. They were forming custom communities based on need and what surrounded them.

In this picture there were two girls building a fort out of cardboard. They were playing a game together, preparing them from the rain and yet still having fun with things they found. Their family was very protective of them and came to interrogate me, trying to find out wither I was friendly or trying to harm them somehow. They were a bit violent and very quickly I found myself surrounded by ten to twelve uncles and fathers who were very angry. It took me about Three hours to calm them down and convince them that I was only a student and not the Mafia threat they mistook me for. Apparently there were foreign gangs who came into Romania from other countries and kidnapped children, murdered them and sold their organs on the black market.

That news to me was both shocking and stopped me form being able to document as much of Romania as I wanted to. I was never able to find out who or where did all this happen from, but I did confirm the fact that child kidnapping was a common problem in my half country.

Familia Mia

2009-05-26T11:05:00.005-04:00

These are part of a series that I've been working on for the past 4 to 5 years. They are pictures of my family in Romania extending to some of my family in that states. I've been really doing this mostly for myself, but found something nice and beautiful to explore. These two images are of my Mother in the foreground and my grandmother in the back. They were reliving some old memories, maybe my mothers childhood, maybe some of mine. My grandmother started feeling really shy to be participating in these and used my mother as a shield a few times to stay out of the cameras sight. It was actually her idea for me to start photographing them though. She told me one day that her and my grandfather are getting old and that there is no knowing when or where we can have these experiences together. It was kind of frightening at first to hear that, since it was when I first picked up photography and was already given a task by my grandparents to document their coming close to the end of their lives. My grandmother has actually asked me to take a couple of straight portraits for their funeral, which I have still not been able to get myself to do. But for now I seem to have captured more of a celebration of their old age and connection with my family.

Pool of Calm

2009-05-20T17:57:00.003-04:00

I am coming up with a video soon that represents more of what I was trying to achieve through this image. It is mostly a sound piece that is accompanied by video. I can remember that as a child I would play a game where I would try to spend as much time under water as I could. I played this game even alone and had very little interest in competition. What I did try to achieve though was a form of adaptation. I was trying to evolve to be the first human fish species. I related the calm of how things sounded underwater to my sleep and felt as if I would be happiest if I lived in that pool of calm for the rest of my life. I remember that I had all sorts of experiments that actually worked in keeping me underwater as much as possible. one distinct logic I used that I can remember was that if you shut all your senses under water then there is less need for your body to exhaust its energy in burning oxygen. In school at the time I was learning about our respiratory system and got to know that oxygen in your body is needed to be burnt in order to move your limbs and muscles and make your body go on living. I am not sure about this since I didn't study it further, but I was pretty sure that if you close your eyes and try to limit your thoughts and your movement that it would conserve more oxygen and thus I can stay under for longer. That was probably one of my first approach to accidental meditation.

Dualities

2009-05-20T17:28:00.005-04:00

This image was taken with infrared film that I was experimenting with when I was in school. It was part of a project that explored Greek mythology and incorporated it with things I was dealing with at the time. There are a lot of dualities that I find in my work as a recurrent theme, that leads me to believe that I have always been leaning towards a world where two things meet and make sense together. wether it is a relationship between two people, or even two different philosophies that can meet half way and form a new one. Or simply two plants that are growing from the same ground, under the same circumstances, influencing each other and yet come out to adapt very differently. different lengths, difference shapes, different ides.

I sometimes do believe that paradoxes can coexist and still make sense. to me a concrete world lies right next to an abstract one and separated by something liquid like water. Water can take the shape of both the glass its being held in and the air pressure blowing at it. and to us? thats what were left with. being constantly ping ponged between those two surfaces and taking different shapes, different forms, growing up.... having different ideas that even as a kid one would start developing a view on what reality is. Maybe we grow up because we assume that age has something to do with our understanding of these surfaces or the world. and maybe we believe that the longer time one has spent on a subject the closer they are to its meaning. yet we can be wrong. we can all be going further and further. And just maybe our most simple truths were the times spent as a duality, as a contradiction. was I one person in my mothers belly? was I two people? Was I her once for a few months till I was flushed into uncertainty? Maybe truths only come as that. as two things combined that creates a paradox. Maybe love and our common urge to seek it and attain it is simply finding that truth we once had. For 6, 7, 8, 9 months you give and take whichever. for that period we were certain. No need of vocabulary, of metaphors to express ourselves. all we needed to do to express feelings it to have more of them. ..... and maybe I'm just dreaming out loud...

Kiwi

2009-05-19T16:07:00.003-04:00

A literary bird likes to chew on words. one word at a time. chump chump chump

Heres a couple more

2009-05-19T15:11:00.002-04:00

Made with love

A lot of stories hanging from rubber

2009-05-19T15:05:00.002-04:00

Over my bed a couple of months ago I started working on this installation that turned into a collaboration with my love Andrea. It was a large web made of rubber bands of different colors and sorts that tied together many story pages from an old book I had. The book was later used as a hiding place for my parakeet birds and in a photograph that will translate into film for my upcoming short film.

I havnt settled on a title yet. but this ongoing slow project is finally starting to come around into a start soon... just need more enthusiasm thats all...

Awareness

2009-05-13T16:57:00.004-04:00

Two new drawings that are displayed backwards due to what happens when you use photobooth to upload your work.. this is how I look to myself though. maybe this is what these drawings would see themselves as if they had self awareness. speaking of self awareness... that happens a lot if you are hanging upside down from a thin string. but definitely not comfortable...

Adaptation

2009-04-28T17:53:00.002-04:00

Desert Door

2009-04-28T14:01:00.005-04:00

I drew this image after seeing a photograph of an old ruin in the Egyptian desert. I plan to hopefully find that place sometimes and maybe photograph it. I really like doorways or windows. It always makes me think of spaces and the objects that separate them. In this case it was a door that separated that same space. and I like that you can walk through it or simply walk around it. When I see a door in the middle of nowhere I think of a purpose it possesses. If it is not separating two different spaces, then I assume that there is more meaning behind it, or that something might happen if I walked through it. Making it a mystifying place to stand in. (A portal)

Cat Wait

2009-04-28T11:00:00.005-04:00

An old drawing on my bag that will soon be embroidered ... eeek

A chilli night

2009-04-25T09:35:00.002-04:00