Helen Shewolfe Tseng

San Francisco, California

Bio

Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an artist, designer, and witch, born to Taiwanese immigrants in the Deep South under a full moon. Their work often involves ritual, ancestral myth and mysticism, animal motifs, and the cosmic, and they use zines to cast spells and open portals.

Zines

PSST Quaranzine, $8.00 - The Pedestrian’s Society of Space and Time delivers a curious care package for blurred space and time. Participatory workbook zine of prompts and rituals for isolated exploration during a viral pandemic. Link to purchase.

Coyote portals, $25.00 - Set of mini-prints from my ongoing coyote portals series, which are influenced by folk spiritualities, language and literature, cosmology, ecology, and interior experience. Link to purchase.

in captivity i find myself thinking of bats, $2.00 - A zine that is also a poem that is also a poster. Exploring bats as cultural motif for good fortune, as vector for coronavirus and related racism, and as proxy for examining and unraveling selfhood. Link to purchase.

Immigrant talismans, $15.00 - Risograph print/zine inspired by Taoist paper fu talismans, dedicated to the protection of immigrants. Coyotes for adaptive resistance; bats, a Chinese symbol for blessing; sacred geometries, auspicious numerologies, and the infinite. Link to purchase.

Growth Spells zine, $8.00 - A zine that collects a portion of an ongoing series of the same name, of drawings as result of an experimental mark-making ritual devised by the artist. Each drawing is imbued with a temporal memory and acts as a portal to flow state, time travel, ego loss. Link to purchase.

Other Work

Internet! stickers, $5.00 - Set of four (4) stickers in celebration of the early web, originally printed for Internet! A Retrospective. Under construction icon, broken image icon, dial-up icon, and internet! pixel script. Link

Internet! pin $5.00 - Gold and black hard enamel lapel pin, originally printed for Internet! A Retrospective. 1.25” wide, black rubber pin backing. Link

Links, Social, & Support

Website: helentseng.com

Social media: @wolfchirp on Instagram

Venmo: @wolfchirp

Paypal: paypal.me/wolfchirp