Why do Helen Mudie - Ioannidou's sculptures touch you? Part of the answer is in the tactile, sensual, immediate way that you are drawn to the bodies. They seem to have paused for a moment before life resumes, an instant captured before they move away. They invite your action, to touch and explore, and your reaction, to consider how still life can become.

Part of the answer is less visible, more emotional. The figures convey the essence of a being, the spirit of a person, the impression that you have already met and known each other.
The artist however will not express this in words, she conveys everything through the form, the physical and the metaphysical, the shape and the spirit.

The sculpture becomes a body, becomes a figure, becomes a person, becomes a friend.