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Rainbow #8, Rainbow#9, Rainbow#10
These three kids are holding food that recalls Kathy’s childhood – miniature cereal boxes that covert to bowls, personalized ice cream cups and stovetop jiffy pop popcorn.
They are immersed in a background that is as colorful as a rainbow and chaotic.
The bandages suggest healing.
Material: Acrylic and Oil on canvas
Size: 30″x40″ each
The age-old question of why we are here and what is our purpose, pops up from time to time. As I get older, my curiosity to answer that gets stronger. I realize that everything happens for a reason and I could have been anything in this life.
At a young age I could look at an animal and feel so much love for it, that I could cry at the thought of it dying some day. That is not unusual for anyone to feel this, but I come from a lineage of ancestors who have had a past(and present)of much animal brutality and cruelty. We all know the horrific stories.
Most every culture partakes in some act of treating animals with no regard or awareness that they are sentient beings. There is idea that we are superior and at the top of the food chain. In reality, we are all one, and if we hurt one, we hurt ourselves in the process. No culture is worse in this regard than others. I just have to start from some place, and it is my bloodline.
On the sides of my H.A.K. series paintings, I write the Chinese characters for “Love” and “Animals”. It is a straight forward message and I am now learning the strokes that my ancestors knew.
The first image is called “medicine doll” and the second piece is called “Oliver“
Material: oil and acrylic on wood
Size: “medicine doll” 24″24″, “Oliver” 6″x8″
This small diptych from 2020
It is no doubt that the pandemic caused people to feel cut off or miss being surrounded by friends or loved ones.
Or even strangers.
“Can You Hear Me?” Is a play on words of our childhood tin can telephones. The string that connects the cans is hanging by a thread and there is corrosion/rust which show the passing of time. Even though the duration of this time apart is unknown, the kids appear happy.I wanted to show that we are never really cut off from anything in this physical world. Everything is energy and vibrates. There is no separation since our energy fields mix. We are interconnected and the energy that is available, if we want to feel it, is more powerful than words. It is another reminder that we are all one.
Material: Acrylic and Oil on wood
Size: 2 paintings 20″x10″
This painting of a kid eating a juicy psychedelic yet strange fruit in front of a shattering chaotic background is the second piece we did together.
It is about how everything rhythmyclly falls apart and decents into chaos (e.g. the pandemic) only to give space for the new. The kids creative world seems full of color, dreamlike, playful and also a little threatening. It seems in its own world and the juicy fruit reminds us of the luscious nurturing aspects of mothers earthly delights.
Mediums used is acrylic paint, oil, spray paint and ink on canvas
60″ x 40″ in size and available for sale at Cedar Gallery in Honolulu