A Husk of What Ash Once Was

Copper, zinc, charcoal, found wood, canvas, acrylic, polyurethane, aerosol paint, oilstick, ash, dirt, hair, newsprint, found frames, ferric chloride.

My installation in the University of Hawaii Art Gallery as part of SHIFT.

BFA

This semester I am president of the BFA class at the University of Hawaii. There are 27 of us this year--a large but incredibly talented group of artists. Our concentrations include painting, sculpture, glass, fiber, performance, photography, installation, and printmaking. The thesis exhibition, Shift, opens in less than two weeks. Here are some process shots from a blog I created.

Photos by Dustin Miyakawa, Trevor Sakanashi, Mark Kushimi.

OJAI

My dad's family is from Ojai, California. I found some film that expired in the 90's, loaded up my camera, and took these while walking around the valley on Christmas Day.

MORENCI

Morenci - oil, acrylic, and spray paint on plywood

Study of the Morenci mine in Arizona--one of the largest open pit copper mines in the world.

WONDER: FALL 2012 RETROSPECTIVE

As the semester draws to a close and the Wonder Action Network & Garrison grows in size and breadth, here's a little retrospective of our actions in and around the University of Hawaii campus.

Postings around campus bulletin boards.

A cancelled mural.

Shirt and poster printing + tie dye.

The Wonder booth at the Ka Leo Arts Festival: live screenprinting and fundraising.

The W.A.N.G. zine, screenprinted with hand embossed braille.

The WONDERSHOW.

BASEMENT

Mark Kushimi of Contrast Magazine paid me a visit to my basement a couple weeks ago. It's currently set up as a creative lab / studio for whatever projects I happen to be working on. He brought a bunch of film with him and shot these just for fun. 

ZINE NIGHT

Zine night in Hawaii put together by some good folks like my friend Dana Paresa. I'm printing a version of my old zine, Gotham, and producing a new one in collaboration with the WONDER project (hereby known as W.A.N.G. / Wonder Action Network & Garrison).

WONDER

Wonder, 2012, 20' mural on the University of Hawai'i at Manoa campus

Cancelled, 2012, University of Hawai'i at Manoa campus bulletin board

The aim of critical public art is neither a happy self-exhibition nor a passive collaboration with the grand gallery of the city, its ideological theatre and architectural-social system. Rather, it is an engagement in strategic challenges to the city structures and mediums that mediate our everyday perception of the world: an engagement through aesthetic-critical interruptions, infiltrations and appropriations that question the symbolic, psycho-political and economic operations of the city.
Krzystof Wodiczko, Strategies of Public Address: Which Media, Which Publics?

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