Helen Jones is a native of Southern Vermont, and a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art, she photographs in the New England area. She is interested in recording the evidence of peoples existence: the way they interact with space, the marks they leave behind, and the way they arrange things around them.
By looking at these imprints and remains, Jones can examine past and present at the same time. She likes to think of a place as a palimpsest of the lives led there; an object, place or area that reflects its history, a build-up of layers of time. She is very attracted to surfaces, patterns and textures, such as wallpaper. She often photographs odd juxtapositions between objects and the spaces they inhabit: the new and old, the functional and decorative, and the generally strange.
Jones wants her pictures to make the viewer curious about what has gone on in front of the camera, not just at the moment the shutter was clicked but before, and to wonder about the places and the people who have inhabited them.
