In a secret house shaded by furry-limbed pohutukawa in Karaka Bay, along the coast in Auckland's Eastern Bays, lives an artist who creates beasties that are neither human nor animal. Helen Momota calls her fabric creations impies and her paintings animalia and they are her children, since she has none of her own."My sister told me I didn't need children," says Helen, "because I am a child myself."In fact she comes across as more of a sprite than a child, perhaps a forest sprite, but a merry sprite nonetheless, who danced her way into the house a long time ago.In those days Aussie-born Helen was a peace activist, living in Japan, dancing her spiral dance ("I'm fascinated by spirals in nature") and planting flags for peace all around the country.
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