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Helen Eberhardie Dunn 
M.F.A. Royal College of Art, M.R.S.S.


                                                                                                aka Hella Song Beetle


Performance, Installation, Community, Offering, Eco-Feminism, Embodied Voice

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Artist Bio

My multimedia practice spans over three decades, integrating stone, bronze, clay, film, performance, and sound. Recent work includes EARTHflows (2023–2025), a community-centered ritual installation series exploring how micro-gestures ripple into macro ecological and cultural narratives.

 

Rooted in somatic awareness and collaboration, my projects engage multi-cultural communities in Southern Colorado, fostering creative environments through workshops that focus on shared stories, listening, and collective knowledge. My public commissions and performances highlight ecological fragility and the living intelligence of the soil web—such as Cracked Earth / Rising Blue (2023).

 

As an educator, I cultivate reflective, playful, DEI-informed learning environments. My practice continues to explore how the Earth can act as co-author, collaborator, and transformative presence in art.

TIME = ART

‘How do evolving timelines invite intersections with ecology, expansion, and contraction?’

As an interdisciplinary artist, I explore conversations about spiritual ecology, creating immersive experiences through sculpture, performance, and installation that invite expansive awareness. I aim to create spaces for connection, reflection, and alternate perspectives. I am committed to contributing to a more just and compassionate world.

 

How can art catalyze change and inspire us to reimagine intersections between social and environmental justice and personal and collective change? My work is led by investigative approaches, incorporating locality, clays, found objects, pigments, fibers, plants, film, photography, sound, and light.

‘Can we experience spatial relationships through vibration harmony and dissonance?’

This work centers on curating collaborative ritual performances informed by solastalgia, our experience of climate change. EARTHflows is an ongoing project based on locality, reverence for the natural environment, and community collaboration. It includes EARTHflow Ritual Performances, Earth Experiments, and Ritual Action Flow Paintings.

As director of the ecological art collective SkySoul Studio, I host a platform exploring solastalgia. We are a developing collective of environmentally aware creatives collaborating on investigations into impermanence and ecofeminism. Public engagement in community events offers the potential for reframing ideologies of contraction. Art can unite people, challenge assumptions, and inspire us to envision new possibilities.

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