Artwork Collection

01 For Jurying Consideration

Jurying mourning healing ritual funerary narrative ceremonial ephemeral formality

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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

Swaying Prayers
Swaying Prayers

Print

Swaying Prayers

Joss paper or money paper, is a custom to East Asia cultures. It is a paper custom used for burning at a funeral and ancestral ceremonies. These papers are often presented in golds, silvers, and are thin bamboo or rice paper. Where some... More

Ancestral Devotion
Ancestral Devotion

Essay

Ancestral Devotion

Exhibition Dissertation Support Paper

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]