Looking mauka from the park

paper sculpture (with photographs, paper pulp mixed with soil from Kaka‘ako and San Jose, found cardboard, office supplies, and other recycled papers)
59” x 27” x 46”
2019

Part of Expansion (land.water.sky), 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.

Exhibition history:
In Plain Sight, Mills College Art Museum (2019)  [online exhibition catalogue]
Expansion (land.water.sky), Commons Gallery, University of Hawai‘i (2019)

Mills exhibition documentation by Kija Lucas, University of Hawai‘i exhibition documentation by Weston Teruya