Helen Rogers

Dancing Porch Bear, 2022

High fire and Low fire Clay.

8 x 6 x 4 inches

Courtesy of Helen Rogers and Blue Eye Bandit Studio

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Helen Rogers Blue Eye Bandit Studio 404-784-2531 The most important thing to know about me is that I am a retired government scientist turned artist. For 27 years, I worked in the field of environmental health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. My training is in analytical chemistry and I have investigated many disease outbreaks in the US and abroad (Africa, Central and South America, Europe). Although the popular public perception of scientists is of stodgy men and women in white lab coats seriously gazing into microscopes, the truth is that the greatest discoveries are made through risk-taking and creativity. I've been driven by a passion for making things all my life, and have maintained flirtatious love affair with art. I have very little formal training in art techniques-most everything I do, I learn on the fly and infer the rest. Art involves the action of prying open the places between the dark and the light, the natural world and technology, folk traditions and modern marvels, and then finding ways to blend them together. To that end, I blend folk tales into the stories and poems I write about my pieces. I collect natural materials and found objects to blend into creatures-of the forests, of technology, of my imagination.