Helen

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From wheelchair nomad diary… 2003 SS I recalled Neville Cohen’s words. “You must see Owl’s House, owned by Miss Helen, a school teacher, who eventually committed suicide at 78 years of age, dying a horrible three day death from swallowing caustic soda. She was a recluse, who kept to herself, obsessed with colour and owls. She ground coloured glass in a coffee grinder and painted her rooms with fine coloured glass. She filled her entire back yard with cement figures, mostly of owls. The house is preserved as a national site and is the same as when she died.”
The house was well signed posted. Inside, I couldn’t decide if she were mad or an unappreciated artist. Richard commented, “If she were born earlier, she’d be burned as a witch, if she were in a different location like New York City, she’d be a rich venerated artist, here she was a sad obsessive hermit. I myself think she was sane, and an artist in exile, many kilometres from anyone to appreciate her talents.” There were many facets to her personality, those erotic photographs of women hanging on the wall, don’t fit the image of an aging spinster. The multiple bottles of preserves indicate other interests. The cement statues were everywhere, some incorporating wine bottles…

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