Projectile News
Week of January 1, 2018 (24” × 30”)

Code Red
Week of February 11, 2018 (24” × 30”)

Bring Back Our Girls
Week of April 8, 2018 (30” × 24”)

Snatched
Week of June 17, 2018 (12” × 16”)

WTF
Week of July 15, 2018 (24” × 30”)

Caution!
Week of October 21, 2018 (36” × 24”)

The Resistance
Week of November 11, 2018 (36” × 24”)

Helen Hamblin

Helen Hamblin is an artist and visual documentarian whose work bridges world events, storytelling and spiritual reflection. A lifelong traveler and learner, she draws on a background in political science, journalism, interior design and years as a New York City public school teacher, paths that deepened her understanding of culture, power structures and the human capasity for transformation.

Her decade-long project, From Ego to Essence, creates a visual archive of this era, layering headlines, collage and transparent paint to reveal both cultural fracture and inner awakening. Through her daily practice of the workbook lessons in A Course In Miracles, and the meditative act of creating, she is a lifelong seeker who finally found stillness through this work.

Based in Florida, Helen invites viewers to look closely at her art, and at themselves, to imagine what becomes possivle beyond division, and beyond the inner and outer noise we’ve come to accept as normal.

From Ego to Essence is a layered visual journey through a decade of political upheaval, cultural fracture and personal transformation. In 2018 I created 52 collages in 52 weeks; a flood of images as relentless and loud as the news cycle. Over time, the pace slowed and the work shifted into larger, more spacious pieces that create room for refection as well as reaction. Using collage, headlines and transparent paint, each piece captures a specific cultural moment while asking a deeper question: how do we live through and remember this unbelievable era, and come out not just intact, but improved?

This series is both a historical timeline and a visual archive; a protest against forgetting and a bridge towards the inner reckoning this era demands.

Artist Statement

I began From Ego to Essence in 2018 with an urgency I couldn’t ignore. The headlines were relentless, the world felt fractured and I knew this era would be studied for generations. I set out to make one dated collage per week, not as decoration, but as documentation. A safeguard against collective amnesia. A refusal to normalize the chaos.

At first, the work was raw and unapologetically political; cutouts of breaking news layered with outrage and grief. But as I continued, something shifted. My study of the book A Course In Miracles profoundly changed my perspective. I began to see that the fractures I was recording in the world echoed the fractures within myself. The project shifted from external critique to internal reckoning. The pace slowed. The pieces became larger, more layered, both physically and metaphorically. What began as a response to the noise of the outside world became a map towards self-realization.

These works form a living archive of collective memory and a call to personal awakening. The goal is not simply to document where we’ve been, but to help illuminate what becomes possible when we remember who we truly are.

This series will span ten years, from 2018 to 2028, culminating in a museum-scaled archive of approximately 100 works. With dedicated support, I plan to complete the archive with a full scale exhibition in 2028 and a soft launch in 2026, both aligned with the U.S. election season.

The 2028 show is just the beginning; a launchpad for a traveling exhibit and a filmed documentary series that follows the real journey of those ready to go from ego to essence. Remembering what we live through is only part of the story. The rest is what we do next.

Let’s Connect:
Helen Hamblin
HH.HelenHamblin@gmail.com
347-767-8123