KALEID Gallery is proud to present: “Helen: Queen of the Flies”drawings and short film by resident artist Julie Barrett Opening Reception: First Friday August 6th 5pm–9pm. Artist will be in attendance.Part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS Art Walk SJ. Carl is in love with a girl named Helen.Others don’t approve of his desires.“She’s too pretty,” they say.“She’s too young,” they say.“She’s too dead,” they say.He is not deterred, he loves her. “Helen: Queen of the Flies” is Julie Barret’s new series of drawings and accompanying short film about an obsessive love. A love that brings despair upon oneself and despise from others. Julie’s drawings are her imagined depictions of true events of nearly a hundred years ago that drove a man beyond the edge of reason over a young woman. This account that Julie illustrates so delicately and hauntingly, is beyond a specific tale, it is a universal allegory for…
