A new piece of mine – titled “Make” – is currently on display at Kit & Ace in Ala Moana. It will be up through the month of March and can be viewed anytime during store hours.
The artwork is a memento mori of sorts – 100 individual leaf “skeletons” were gathered to make 100 individual cyanotype photograms (photographic prints made without a camera), thus preserving a moment in each leaf’s phase of decomposition. Arrange in such a way to create the sense of movement, the leaves reject the perceived lifeless-ness of dead objects. The title itself is a play on two definitions of the word; in English, to “make” means to create or compose, while in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, “make” means to die or perish. Juxtaposing these two definitions brings to mind the cyclical nature of creation and destruction.
Ualani Davis 