Artwork Collection

If Not Here, Then Where?

This collection showcases the yearlong investigation of my thesis work that focuses on the idea of mourning, funerary, and ancestry. Throughout the work, it depicts four encaustic painting that incorporates Printmaking and Photography components in a unified visual narrative.

Encaustic Mixed Media Ancestral Mourning Worship Ritual

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If Not Here, Then Where?
If Not Here, Then Where?

Mixed Media

If Not Here, Then Where?

Helen Tran’s work draws on traditional family ceremonies and funerary rituals and utilizes both print media and photography to express the idea of mourning and healing. “If Not Here, Then Where?” contextualizes how mourning rituals are constructed... More

Work by

Helen Tran

Printmaking & Photography

“When it comes to mourning and grief of others, it has primarily affected me when there is an event of death. It then follows me by forlorn sorrow and silence, with traces of their memories that stay...” [More]