JULY 11 -21
HELICES
a spiraling journey of provocation and mutation
Creators Binda Colebrook, Jenny Katz, and Dale Rawlinson describe HELICES as a “mutagenic” process, designed to spark creative aliveness. In a series of 11 movements, one artist’s output became the other artist’s inspiration, sometimes literal, sometimes loose. This double-helix pattern of provocation and response grew into a complex web of intermeaning, thick with references and a growing language of shared symbols. (The name of the project — the plural of "helix" — references the twining, co-evolutionary nature of the work.) The exhibition of HELICES — Movement 12 of the project — includes 2D and 3D visual art, writing and songwriting, sculptural fire-building, music production, and videography.
Binda Colebrook (she/her) is an artist and a psychotherapist who lives in Northampton MA.
In my multi-disciplinary art practice, I make images, installations and objects prompted by being in relation to the world around me. The sensation of tree bark on my fingertips; the visions I get of the vibrational fields sensed when in relation to all living beings; the words I read; the sounds I hear; the relationships I have. I feel most alive when I make things, when I am in deep and true connection to the red thread of aliveness I am a part of — a thread that is always complex, at times ugly and pain filled, and at others beautiful, sensationally juicy and moving.
You can find more information about my art practice at www.bindacolebrookart.com
Jenny Katz (she/her) is a musician, novelist, and UI/UX designer who lives in Northampton.
My dad is a professional jazz pianist, so growing up I learned that listening, improvising, and playing off each other are the key moves in a vivid life. For me, the artifacts that come into being while creating art and music are interesting, but secondary to the experience of trying to participate fully in the making. To that end, I’m a continuing student of Jonathan Stancato’s Inside Voice methodology, and last year I published Emergent, a game to help people come into conversation with creative energy. You can play for free online or purchase a set at emergentgame.com/
Dale Rawlinson (he/him) is an alarms system technician and father of five who lives in Montague, Massachusetts.
I enjoy making and recognizing patterns, and I’m always looking for things to celebrate and ways to connect. I like to put myself in a place of eyeball-to-eyeball understanding of what you’re crying or singing about. When my mother died in February of 2022, I lit a fire and kept it burning for a week, both as a tribute and because I didn’t know what else to do. Then, inspired by Martin Shaw’s retelling of the Lindworm story, I decided to build a fire for a year and a day, a mythological allotment of time that allows you to see a thing under every sun and moon that our planet has to offer. The commitment to seeing something through in its entirety opened me to a different level of learning. I still don’t describe myself as “an artist,” but I feel grateful to all those who have helped and encouraged me to live “an artful life.”
HELICES
a spiraling journey of provocation and mutation
Creators Binda Colebrook, Jenny Katz, and Dale Rawlinson describe HELICES as a “mutagenic” process, designed to spark creative aliveness. In a series of 11 movements, one artist’s output became the other artist’s inspiration, sometimes literal, sometimes loose. This double-helix pattern of provocation and response grew into a complex web of intermeaning, thick with references and a growing language of shared symbols. (The name of the project — the plural of "helix" — references the twining, co-evolutionary nature of the work.) The exhibition of HELICES — Movement 12 of the project — includes 2D and 3D visual art, writing and songwriting, sculptural fire-building, music production, and videography.
Binda Colebrook (she/her) is an artist and a psychotherapist who lives in Northampton MA.
In my multi-disciplinary art practice, I make images, installations and objects prompted by being in relation to the world around me. The sensation of tree bark on my fingertips; the visions I get of the vibrational fields sensed when in relation to all living beings; the words I read; the sounds I hear; the relationships I have. I feel most alive when I make things, when I am in deep and true connection to the red thread of aliveness I am a part of — a thread that is always complex, at times ugly and pain filled, and at others beautiful, sensationally juicy and moving.
You can find more information about my art practice at www.bindacolebrookart.com
Jenny Katz (she/her) is a musician, novelist, and UI/UX designer who lives in Northampton.
My dad is a professional jazz pianist, so growing up I learned that listening, improvising, and playing off each other are the key moves in a vivid life. For me, the artifacts that come into being while creating art and music are interesting, but secondary to the experience of trying to participate fully in the making. To that end, I’m a continuing student of Jonathan Stancato’s Inside Voice methodology, and last year I published Emergent, a game to help people come into conversation with creative energy. You can play for free online or purchase a set at emergentgame.com/
Dale Rawlinson (he/him) is an alarms system technician and father of five who lives in Montague, Massachusetts.
I enjoy making and recognizing patterns, and I’m always looking for things to celebrate and ways to connect. I like to put myself in a place of eyeball-to-eyeball understanding of what you’re crying or singing about. When my mother died in February of 2022, I lit a fire and kept it burning for a week, both as a tribute and because I didn’t know what else to do. Then, inspired by Martin Shaw’s retelling of the Lindworm story, I decided to build a fire for a year and a day, a mythological allotment of time that allows you to see a thing under every sun and moon that our planet has to offer. The commitment to seeing something through in its entirety opened me to a different level of learning. I still don’t describe myself as “an artist,” but I feel grateful to all those who have helped and encouraged me to live “an artful life.”