At Hecho a Mano, Kanaka Maoli artists Lehuauakea and Ian Kuali’i presented pieces on kapa (barkcloth) and hand-cut paper, respectively. Referencing storytelling and traditional tattooing, the works evoke places, personal histories, and legacies. Lehuauakea’s kapa works utilize earth pigments and traditional patterns to illustrate connections between the environment, Indigenous resilience, and the preservation and perpetuation of Native Hawaiian craft practices. Kuali’i showed hand-cut lenticular works that speak to Native Hawaiian politics, legacies of dispossession and colonialism, and ancestral iconographies.

 

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