“WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN”
....a “How-To-Have-Fun-While-Being-An-Artist” life survival guide memoir from the POV of an enigmatic, fascinating party girl who also happens to be an internationally acclaimed trapeze artist
About “Wild Animals I Have Known”
Judith, a “reluctant raconteur” tells it from her side:
…a personal 'herstory' of tragedy and triumph; darkness and light; sex and art; love and loss; of family and friends that spans the 60's de-segregation in Boston to 70's sexual freedoms in San Francisco to 80's behind the Berlin Wall to 90's “Hollyweird" to Millennium LA frenzy.
Peppered with odd and lovable characters, and bold-faced names, Judith FLEX Helle’s “Wild Animals I Have Known” is a literary bacchanal roller coaster ride through “life as she knows it”.
PART 1:
NEW ENGLAND DAZE
Surviving as a tiny child artist growing up (trying!) in a Jewish academic, political family.
July 20, 1969 Cape Cod, MA
PART TWO:
THE LEFT COAST
Glam rock, Punk rock, Siren, Artist. Yeah!
PART THREE:
TRAPEZE LIFE
Ever wondered what a circus performer’s life is really like?
Photo: Ted Soqui Los Angeles 2005