Expansion (land.water.sky) [installation]

paper sculpture (with various papers including photographs, found cardboard, office supplies, and cast paper), soil from Kakaʻako and Silicon Valley, gathered trash, coral, bamboo, wood
2019

Expansion was commissioned by the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa – Department of Art & Art History as an exhibition and in-gallery residency in the Commons Gallery. A later iteration of the project was commissioned by, and exhibited at, the Mills College Art Museum (those exhibited pieces are represented in the portfolio individually).

Expansion (land.water.sky) is a sculptural project that looks at the visual language of hyperdevelopment in the Ward neighborhood of Honolulu–particularly how the architecture, marketing language, and public design leverage elements of nature and cultural history to sell a slick package of mindful luxury that belies a legacy of refuse, extractions, and dislocations left in the wake of moneyed incursions across the land, water, and into the sky.