Marriage is difficult:

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I wanted Marriage/Helen to be messy, confusing but also exciting. Like the real thing. 

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At the beginning of many marriages there is the honeymoon. Which is jam filled with an awful lot of the sexy stuff. I don't know whose idea it was but hurrah for her or possibly, but lets face it, unlikely, him.

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Then comes the hard work on finding out what marriage means to the individual couples. There isn't a template, every marriage is unique.

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Helen had to embody these traits but also be vulnerable to reflect the honesty of marriage.

 

To achieve this I decided that Helen's avatar had to be beautiful to everyone because in each true marriage the partners are beautiful to each other.

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She also had to be strong, representing the bond of marriage. By making her also the ultimate predator, I wanted to allegorise how a couple protects their marriage against the universe. 

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Let's finish by letting Helen Bach have the last words;

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"What the gravity-swell have you done with Felix. If you have damaged him in anyway, I'll ...."

 

Perhaps that wasn't such a good idea.