Art

I'm an artist. I guess you would say multimedia. Here are a few pieces or projects I have worked on:

Made this coloring page, amongst others, to help people through COVID isolation (when I was in quarantine myself)

This one was featured in "The Poʻ Peopleʻs Guide to Surviving COVID-19 and the Virus of Poverty" by Poor Press.


Quarantine was good for art....


This was a banner I made in 2011 for the encampment at Sogorea Te in California. It travelled all over, to different land struggles on Moku Honu (North America). It may have been lost at Standing Rock. Who knows?

(Update: it was found and is still circulating all over Moku Honu)

This one has been pretty popular for awhile now. Made it at the beginning of the struggle against TMT, when it was only a small ragtag group going through one bureaucratic mess after another. I only had a half-broken computer with a really shitty trackpad, and did the whole thing (along with many other pieces of the era) with my finger.


Much of my art energy for the last couple of decades has been focused on graphics for protecting one place or another from destruction. I wish they would just stop.


This was for a friendʻs punk album a few years ago.

I stand with Poliahu!


Uncle Sam in the 50 Years of Statehood protest, 2009 (this WAS the 50-year "celebration" of Statehood in Hawaiʻi, which says a lot about this illegal occupation of our neutral country).
Many hands worked on this one. I was the lead sculptor/engineer, and basically made stuff like the face and beard. It was from Lynette Cruzʻ original idea, and she sent her Ka Lei Maile Aliʻi Civic Club to help. We had a lot of fun!
The best part was the hat, which held a very large American Flag. At the end of the march, the boys whacked his hat off, the flag fell out, and the young women picked it up, cut one star out, and burned it. It was beautiful.

Of course, then the boys kinda got carried away and bashed Uncle Samʻs head in, which was not supposed to happen, on the evening news. Sigh, lol. But I mean, who can blame them? Kanaka need a lot more credit for living in Kapu Aloha for well over a century!!

This is one of my Graffiti pieces. It no longer exists, as it was painted over. Graffiti has a Mandala element of temporal existence, and also (for me) elements of Kiʻi Pohaku.


And yo -- Graffiti is SO not Graffiti if it is legal and someone LET you do it. Jus sayin.


Once upon a time, I used to draw comics.
And write fiction.
Sigh, if only I had more lifetimes to squeeze into this one...

And who could forget the Linda Lingle Slipper Toss?

This was at a march that ended in Kapiʻolani Park, during those dark days in which Ms. Lingle was trying to evict Kanaka and interfere with our cultural practice rights, like crazy. It was a play on the guy who threw his shoe at Bush. Something fun for the keiki.
Yes, I am a peacemaker, a mediator, etc. But if you are a politician who does hewa to the people, I might just have to nonviolently kick your ass...or teach the keiki to do so.


Eventually I will upload more. THis is just a quick sample....