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Pūkai_Bounded Space (2015)
This square, 10 ½ x 10 ½ inch work includes bleached coral, bleached linen book-binding thread, and acrylic on a wood panel. “Pūkai,” which means “salty tears,” holds a lone piece of bleached coral that washed up along the shores near Mālaekahana, in a muliwai of Kahuku that is being devastated by development interests. The sea cries when facing unrelenting environmental trauma. Coral literally bleaches itself in order to protect itself, which in turn kills the reef and threatens all surrounding sea life. One coral stand carries much weight. And we are bounded to this space

Hawaiʻi Review Issue 81

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