Shannon Funai

Hello!

My name is Shannon Funai. I always wanted to do something creative with my life since I watched a lot of anime as a kid. So I took every art class I could when I was younger. I technically lived in Kaneohe but actually grew up in Hawaii Kai since I went to school there. I graduated from Kaiser High School and eventually started college at Kapi‘olani Community College for their Culinary program but changed to Liberal Arts. And finally after finishing my Liberal Arts AS I transferred to UH West O‘ahu to finish my Creative Media BA. I will be graduating with my BA in Creative Media with a concentration in General Creative Media If I were to be an artist tool, I would be a sumi ink brush. I feel that sumi brushes have a great variation of things that it can do. But no matter what I draw I can't go back and erase it since its ink. The amount of pressure you put on the brush, the harsher the lines. Most people assume sumi brushes mostly create beautiful kanji, but in reality it can make so much more.

Research Topic: Local Livelihood

Research Question: What is causing locals to leave behind their home in Hawai‘i?

Capstone Project: Animation Series

Title: A Mo'olelo For Those Who Come After Me

Abstract

For thousands of years, Hawai‘i’s beauty was untouched by man and western culture. After its “discovery” by Captain James Cook in the late 1700’s, it had become a well sought-after real estate by colonizers and eventually a destination for leisure and vacation. Little had those colonizers known that the Native Hawaiians had called that land sacred and their home for those thousands of years. History is doomed to repeat itself where we face that problem in a modern way today. Hundreds of years advocating Hawai‘i as a "vacation destination and paradise" has caused real estate to become unaffordable to non- local home buyers. Thus, a displacement of locals to the mainland threatens Hawaii’s culture to disappear with its people. The “faux” aloha that non-locals bring might become permanent after the displacement of the very people who made it real.

CREATIVE PROCESS:

The concept of creativity has come a long way. The Old Greeks would call those creative forces muses, other religions referred to them as God. Today people still mostly treat creativity as an aha moment outside the area of influence. However, just by looking at the creative process one can tell, that creativity and creative work is more than just that one "Aha-Moment" (insight). It is clear that generating ideas demands planning and preparation, identifying something of interest like a problem, an opportunity or a challenge, doing research. This then leads to thinking of a solution, allowing time to incubate and iterations before arriving at something “complete.” Students learn that hard work is what makes their ideas come to life and sticktuiveness is what helps them get better.

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