This mixed media work on watercolor paper (size 30"x22") unfolds as a vision of an inner and outer landscape intertwined. Rooted in the lush rainforests of Oʻahu, the composition evokes a “magic forest” where springs emerge, water flows, and light filters through dense, living matter. The earliest layers of ink establish a fluid, instinctive foundation—dark currents, branching lines, and submerged pathways that suggest movement beneath the surface.
Philosophically, the piece reflects on fragmentation as a condition of the present moment: truth splintered, identities politicized, and meaning negotiated within overlapping layers of memory, fear, and hope. Rather than offering a fixed stance, the work holds space for contradiction—beauty and unease, vulnerability and resistance—inviting contemplation of what it means to inhabit a nation, and a self, in a time of profound social and ethical uncertainty.
As part of the two square ink drawings after a visit to Pele on the Big Island this spring a more structured yet very surreal piece of art on watercolor paper. Its measurements are 18x18 inch
