Since I was never the parent of a preschooler on the mainland I don't know if this is just another jacked up Hawaii phenomenon or not but Kainoa graduated from preschool yesterday.

Lanikai Ridge hike, what we saw..

Apart from the Royal Hawaiian and Moana Surfrider hotels it can be easy to forget that Waikiki didn't spring up all at once in 1973. These short films from the turn of the century on view at the Bishop Museum were amazing. In the streetcar video you can hear Kainoa say "and if the cars were on the freeway the horses would have to run..."

3B - the best campsite ever.

Led by Thread

I was curious if my drawings would be considered fiber work so I entered them in this exhibition as a curiosity tester. The exhibition can be viewed online, there is so much great work in it, check it out here

stereoviewing

what I'm working on...

This summer I'll be finishing my piece for

Tattered Cultures: Mended Histories is curated by Mary Babcock, Assistant Professor and Fibers Area Chair, Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, in collaboration with Carol Khewhok, Curator, Academy Art Center, Honolulu Academy of Arts. Itwill be presented at the Academy Art Center September 6 through 28, 2008. This fiber art exhibition, which will feature a collection of work by international fiber artists, will explore how dominant ideologies of a specific time and place often tatter the cultural heritage of the less-dominant and more culturally diverse. Admission for this exhibition is free to the public.