This 22"x22" ink and watercolor piece on heavy watercolor paper, created under the Hawaiian sun with the breath of salty ocean air drifting through, moves between the geometric and the organic— between structure and tide.
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
