2019-Present
No Ka Home O Ka Hale Kahiko is a still-developing project about vanishing Hawai’i. What used to be thought of as the ‘paradise tax’ has become the ‘paradise paradox’ - you can live here, but you won't be able to afford to enjoy the place. The slowness in the lifestyle and the aloha of the people is being lost.
2017-Present
Dreams are quirky phenomena. Existing in that liminal space we are confronted with situations we can’t quite explain, often fraught with absurdities and illogical occurrences. They challenge the delicate balance between perception and the subconscious mind.
2013-2020
The series Legally Blind presents out-of-focus, brightly colored landscape pictures in order to visualize what my late mother, who was legally blind, might have seen when she looked at the landscape.
2015-2019
Self-Exposure walks the line between reality and artifice; between soul searching and social commentary. Although each image is an introspective and expressive look at my own persona, each is also a critique of commonly held societal beliefs about feminine identity and contemporary expectations of women.
2015-2018
I, Orfeo explores my memory of an emotionally-charged personal event. The monotone photographs, which appear rough and dreamlike, capture the imperfection and ambiguous nature of visual memories and the events that shaped them.
2016-2017
Social media is a mixed blessing. It allows us to connect to friends from the past and to make new ones who have common interests. However, it brings a share of heartburn as well. Hot on the heels of a rejection, we learn friends have had success at the same endeavor. We want to celebrate for them, but we are in the midst of a bout of self-doubt, self-flagellation, self-pity. Social media sometimes exacerbates these wounds, as we may learn of our perceived failure only by seeing a friend’s celebration.
Water is at the beginning of all things. In Hawaiian thinking, water gives life. Water is always in motion; it is never the same from one instant to the next. The place by the water that we call a beach is a stage for human activity. Water and light are the fuel that power our existence, but a lack of water has a more immediate impact than does an overabundance of darkness, for humans can only survive three days without water. It is a resource that we must not take for granted. Water never really belongs to any one of us.
