JJ and Massimo took us for a walk today at Swanzy Beach Park in Kaʻaʻawa. It was breezy and high tide.
There’s a good view of the most recently built houses across Kamehameha Highway, and looking the other way there’s the surf.
The barricade marks where the ocean has undercut the concrete walkway. Oceans continue to rise.
Be well and stay safe.
~Rebekah
Maʻafala, the Samoan and Tongan breadfruit variety, apparently has cherished value. The tree I planted from a pot is bearing well now. This year’s first round of picking went to the residents of our immediate neighborhood. The second round was distributed to my friend Taueva, who is Tongan—she offered me money and I told her the breadfruit was a gift, Caroline who refilled my bag with bananas and cucumbers, cousin Julie who refilled my other bag with cookies and crackers, and artist friend Esperance who presented me with his original oil painting of outrigger canoes at Kailua Beach. So generous! I am loving the notion of trading.
I’m grateful for the blessings.
Be well.
~Rebekah
Once again Kaneohe Yacht Club welcomed sailboats that made the sea journey from San Francisco in the Pacific Cup race that occurs in even-numbered years. In the last week of July, a land crew crafted lei garlands to present to the yachts when they arrived.
My friend Georgia Schmidt organized the effort of rounding up fresh plant material from gardens and the people to make the lei, each six feet long.
Here are some photos made by lei maker Lisa Leydon and me.
Many, many thanks to everyone who helped with this volunteer project. Aloha nō!
Be well ~
Rebekah
Aloha mai kākou e Studio Fans! Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou 2024! As I noted in other social media:
Affirmations, not resolutions, for 2024: make more art, sing and play more music, keep writing and visual documenting for my blog, contribute more, and cultivate kindness and positive relationships.
Be well!
~Rebekah
Dear Studio Fans,
Wildfires this past Tuesday have destroyed most of Lahaina on the Island of Maui. I am writing this brief message to let you know that we at the studio, here on the different island of Oʻahu, are safe and saddened.
How can we help if we are not physically there? Our family chose to donate to favorite charities such as the World Central Kitchen and the American Red Cross. We filled a sturdy bag with usable supplies, and DH dropped it off this morning at the Hawaii Capitol in Honolulu from where it will be sent to Maui.
In emergencies like this, look for the helpers, and pray for the helpers. So much has been lost.
Be well,
Rebekah
It’s the rainy season at the studio, and as the saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers.” These are some blooms from my garden.
Enjoy!
Be well!
~ Rebekah
I appreciated very much the words of Gregory Pai, the juror of Ultra III exhibit of the Windward Artists Guild. He gave the remarks on March 16, 2023, about my hand-dyed tissue-paper collage entitled “Crater View.” The actual crater at Kilauea was Fissure 8, now named ʻAhuʻailaʻau. The acoustics were poor in the second-floor lobby of Pauahi Tower, where the art will be hanging for two months, so I hope I heard the video correctly for my transcription:
“ … it’s not a piece of work that shouts at you when you look at it, but when you start to look at it very closely, it goes deeper and deeper and deeper. And it’s just very skillful use of collage elements to create an abstract, visual landscape. And the excellent values, differentiation and composition using very strong diagonal shapes gives it a strong sense of movement, depth, and aerial perspective. So it was an abstract, but in the same sense you felt like you were looking at a crater. And it had a very real depth abstract quality to it, and it was done in collage, which is a very difficult medium to work with …”
Be well.
~ Rebekah
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