About

Helen Mirra is a conceptual artist with an ecological ethic and pragmatist philosophy. Central to her practice, she sets off on daily walks with a soft rigor which allows her to reflect on issues of scale, materiality and even pedagogy. She has a sensorial experience of verbal and non-verbal languages, and understands them as reality itself rather than as means to some imagined end. She writes, “I went to a Montessori school as a child. We learned to take care of things. We were free to engage independently or with others. Not sure what the right word is – it wasn’t play exactly, nor work …