Entangled expressions. - by green dreamer kaméa - UPROOTED

Reversing reductionism and becoming artists of life

My fingers started to stain bright pink and plum as I smeared chunks of ‘akala berries to extract their seeds. Seeing their vibrant colors bleed into the white paper towel, I had an idea. “Why don’t I do this in my sketchbook and simultaneously use these fruit pigments as watercolor?” I thought. I then opened a blank page and continued dragging the berries in meditative strokes across the paper, translating these intimate moments into marks of an artful memento. Later, my fingertips, and the canvas, darkened to hues of purple and indigo as I processed the seeds of manono and kolea lauliʻi,…

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