What are you passionate about?

What are you passionate about? What do you want to make this semester? What is a particular issue, concept, or idea that you would like to inviestigate further? What have you been looking at? 

Record, dissect, critique, analyse, reflect, draw, note, write, plan, sketch...it in your workbook/journal.

Pacific Art

Protective Covering

July 14th, 2015

She says she doesn’t speak Hawaiian very well. Instead, the sounds—the swish of tools cutting bast and the hollow tap of hohoa on kua la‘au—are her language.

“These things are based in this land. If Kū, Kāne, Lono, and Kanaloa made this, why not make it beautiful? Why not adorn your body and say, ‘I’m part of this wonderful place that we live in?’

(http://fluxhawaii.com/protective-covering/)

I like how she says that creating something beautiful from natural resources provides that connection that she has to her home land. that because the land is beautiful, she is able to take that unseen beauty and bring it forth for all to see (endless possibilities. like you don’t automatically think masterpiece as you look at a tube of acrylic paint) 

I like how kapa making is what gives her the sense of connection to her roots.

Photography

Maurice Lye

I'm a scavenger, forever on the lookout for situations that appeal to my vision, sense of humour and irony. How people affect their environment, the traces they leave and their responses to the creatures and plants we co-habit with, intrigues me and provides fertile ground for exploration 

http://photoforum-nz.org/index.php?pageID=70

I've always been interested in the look of trees, I remember doing a series of tree paintings in high school. I was attracted to Maurice Lye photographs cause it had trees in it. 

Would be interesting to photograph trees instead of paint them.