Inktober day 13
Leonor Fini wearing costume for the Bal de La Nuit du Pre Catelan, Paris, June 1946 by Andre Ostier
Remnants can be seen at this year’s Mālama Wao Akua juried show at the Hui No’eau art center!
September 18 - November 6
Virtual Opening Celebration (online only): Friday, September 18th 5-6pm
Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center in collaboration with East Maui Watershed Partnership (EMWP) brings you Mālama Wao Akua (Caring for the Realm of the Gods) – a juried art exhibition celebrating the native species of Maui Nui (Maui, Lana‘i, Moloka‘i, Kaho‘olawe). We invite Maui artists to explore our watersheds and use their creative talents to raise awareness about the importance of protecting native species.
Remnants
The Maui Nui finch descended from finches who arrived in Hawai’i by wind or wave and evolved into their own distinct species native to the islands. It was a small bird, with a strong seed-cracking beak. It likely went extinct soon after humans settled the islands.
Artist’s book, pochoir on handmade Indian cotton paper in an accordion structure with Tyveck hinges. Booklet printed on Domtar cream paper with a Nepalese paper cover. The box was constructed with Davey board, book cloth, and with Thai marbled paper. The black handmade paper evokes the lava rock caves where the Maui Nui Finch remains were found. The leaf print on the booklet represents the native forest and the marbled paper the lava that formed the islands.
flamingos flying over tanzania’s lake natron, a salt lake which is home to three quarters of the world’s three million lesser flamingos, as well as toxic multicoloured extremophile cyanobacteria that thrive in water so hypersaline it would strip away human skin. for the flamingos, however, the tough skin and scales on their legs prevents burning, leaving them uniquely free to drink from the near boiling freshwater found from springs and geysers at the lake’s edges. (x, x, x, x, x)
Silver scent bottle in the shape of a budgerigar
by William Leuchars, London, c.1885 (via).
BREAKING NEWS
I just learned about a bird species called Golden Plover. Their chicks have an amazing camouflage: their baby fluff resembles MOSS!
LOOK AT THEM! JUST LOOK AT THEM!
...Oh to be a tiny golden plover lying in the moss safe and sound waiting for your mom to bring you some worms...
ATTENTION: IT IS NOW TIME FOR MOSS
Reminds me of the "Tapera Naevia" aka Striped Cuckoo whose chicks look like Pine Cones, so now we have "Moss Birb" and "Pine Cone Birb"