Helène Aylon

Aylon is associated with the movement known as Process Art, which emphasizes the process of creation over the final work. She was also an active proponent of ecofeminism in the 1980s and after. This drawing was likely made during the artist's 1998 residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. The otherworldly image is formed by organic materials from the landscape, which she applied to the back of the sheet. Though Aylon was able to anticipate her compositions to some extent, the element of chance was an important part of her process, and an aspect of her work that she associated with feminism.