Just like yours, Nadiya Helm's persona is continuously unfurling.

Those proclivities which reoccur hold the Key to your purpose here.

There are two primary categories of strategy I've landed on living in a data-driven society with secular reverence for information-gathering and surveillance. These categories are, incidentally, also categories within holistic medicine, and a dual-natured approach to healing the terrain of the body and treating illness with a dose of something stronger. As the second law of thermodynamics states — matter always moves toward disorder. Clean a mirror and two weeks later, say you don't believe me:

1. cleansing aka "holy"
2. poisoning aka "war"

The first generally has to do with data removal from data brokers' databases and reformatting your overall approach to information sharing (should anyone who wants to mail you something know where you sleep?)

The second has more to do with coupling information about you with information that is false. The ethos here is cyberpunk in a way — information wants to be free – so you do your best to poison it on its way out the door. Say, your favorite color is blue. You instead advertise that your favorite color is orange to intentionally couple your persona with something you consider inaccurate.

This is all less about hiding (though most interesting people have something they'd rather not share with everyone) and more about protecting. Because, the soul is a bit like a snail without its shell. And those reoccurring proclivities mentioned earlier, which leave a trail of crumbs toward your purpose here, approximate something like the soul's purpose.

This is determined through pattern recognition — which is at the core of the business of broadscale information gathering.

Let me be clear — the contents of your soul can be approximated by the information that is gathered about you.

My concerns are spiritual.

As an aside, the information you choose to poison your data can in many ways say more about you than what "naturally" occurs, and opens up complex questions about what is "true" or "false" about "you." This is a riddle I have yet to solve. The best guidance I can give at this juncture is that you shouldn't think too hard about it. Don't try to make it sound ethereal or couch cool little shiny hints in there. Choose totally arbitrary stuff.

Also, what would you do if you had the power of invisibility?*

Don't alter the very first thing that comes to mind, no one is watching.

If you're like most people, your answer falls into one of three categories:

1. Steal (sneakers, gold, identities...)
2. Kill (personal enemies or people you have decided are a plight on the world because of their PR)
3. Spy (locker rooms, bedrooms, top-secret meetings and so forth)

Currently, Nadiya Helm is:**

• publishing and curating at astromatograph
• sculpting a series of spaces out of natural clay and earth pigment
• developing a feature-length film composed of primarily found footage
• reading the digital death and post-mortem privacy and the tao te ching (ursula le guin's translation)
• cosplaying as a private investigator for "research"
• gathering spring water in the mountains
• stargazing
• filming a bowfinger-style film where the subjects are unknowing incompetent bureaucrats instead of eddie murphy
• playing ball games with a dog
• developing a corporate identity which ostensibly sells nothing
• exploring subterranean mines and digging through archives concerning various nefarious brotherhoods
• attempting to repair a 1980s JVC tube television and becoming mesmerized with the sheer complexity of electrical schematics