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Text by Christine Minas
In the two 'Legends' paintings in this presentation, viewers can see dots, scribbles and other
marks made with different colors and media on an apparently raw and empty canvas. These
features reflect their remarkable origin story. In her early thirties, Heldens unexpectedly found
herself in a hospital’s ICU unit. While lying there in critical care, she looked around the room
and started counting the colors she saw. The colors came to exist in her mind without relation
to their corresponding forms and objects. Once she got out of the hospital and back into her
studio, …