So surprising to see my favourite style, and you make something it extraordinarily expressive and mysterious. Very good work, Helle, love it!!!!

Very interesting work! :-)

Outstanding work Helle. God bless.

It really fits that title. Superb, Helle!

Fine work on this very unique concept of walking at night, Helle. All lit up so it could be around an esoteric arras or curtain mall of some sort. Happy Holidays to you!

Wonderful warm tones in this painting, Helle! Really lovely!

Oh, I do like your innovative style here, Helle - especially when I looked closely and I mean much, much closer - I detected a postage stamp from an Australian postcard: Sydney in N.S.W. (New South Wales) on the second last day of the year 1941, during WWII, that in itself tells me a whole lot more of your story, which makes sense now - someone very lonely celebrating the approach of a soon to come, New Years Eve...

this may not not be your story behind this artwork - but I sort of liked it, befitting to the story, don't you think ? Brilliant compilation !

Enjoy your Christmas season with your loved ones Helle

I agree with the above about this being marvelous. And I love Brigitte's comment---she noticed the Sidney postmark (do you have these as fonts? a collection of 'clip art'? where do you find these? my danish postmarks are strictly fonts, and they're all Danish!) She got the date too, and made this whole mysterious WWII story out of it...a great response. Well, whatever day or night this is, it's mysterious, evocative and very rich. When Tara and I talk about your work, among the many things we notice is the sense of total surprise: meaning we have no idea where you get your inspirations from, but they're fresh, totally new, and feel totally right once they're 'on paper'. I have no idea where you get this from, but it's marvelous: The man on the right seems to be walking through a bubbling dream; and he's in a late night section of an enticing and somewhat creepy neighborhood in a big city. In fact, right off of center Boston, there used to be such a neighborhood: Old brothels mixed with great ethnic restaurants, creepy people on the street mixed with people from all over Massachusetts who come for the restaurants alone, stores where you could buy a freakin' car for 5 cents, hookers and artists, you name it: That's the kind of neighborhood you have here. Because, after hours, the place was bleak and desolate, filled with stragglers who you knew had a big backstory, but whose backstory you'd never learn...

Those bubbles are as intuitively right as your texts and the other forms you sprinkle all over your pieces. And, on the other side, the Sydney postmark, alongside a big internet thing that you scan to find a website, or which people scan to ring up sales at a cash register. (For the life of me, I don't know what they're called!) And those diamonds on top, in the dark recesses of that brown-reddish shadow; like the hidden lights of a dark street in a huge city. Hong Kong or Tokyo come to mind. (Appropriate, since you're in a Tokyo kinda mood, with your recent urban paintings---which you know I love.) Very mysterious (Jacomina), nostalgic, haunting, and spare...I love this. Also: People better see this full---I'm gonna sue if they don't!---because it deserves full view. I love the little holes on the edges---as if this were taken from a notebook. I love how you mix real-life things with a painting. (I think your paintings in notebooks influenced your art, because you take even the holes of the paper as part of the art itself; making yet another element to add to your visual entourage...nothing is unusable, for you. Nothing.) Wonderful work, Helle. I love this.

I love this so much, I called Bill over so he could see it too. We both stared and stared, and talked about the different elements and the balance and the light and the color. And how brilliant you are. You can come up with something new and fresh and amazing every five minutes! This is absolutely wonderful. If I saw it hanging in an art museum somewhere, I wouldn't be at all surprised. It's seriously good.