Winter Welcomed

The juror selected the "other one" like this for the show.

Don't you mainlanders laugh!  There IS a winter here, marked by a significant increase in rain, a decrease in temperature, and in the evening night actually "falls."  As we finish out our second full year living in Puna on the Big Island we are both glad for an excuse to be inside and to develop the art directions we have both been playing with (in between various house and land-related projects as we have shared on the blog.)

"Royal Ancestor"

Detail of auto window glass, shattered and reassembled.

In spite of all we have In spite of all the hard work we have still managed to find time for art too.  We are both inspired by the dynamic elements of this land -- both culturally and geological. I was pleased that three of my quirky assemblage pieces were included in October's "Trash Art" exhibition, with one receiving an "Honorable Mention."

This month we both have art at East Hawaii Cultural Council's HMOCA -- Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art. We entered two, and the juror accepted one from each of us;  They accepted one of Phil's "Volcano Moon series, but "Royal Ancestor" came home to be in the "Stairwell Gallery."