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I've been reading and studying up on Hawaii's endemic plants for a while now, and I'm finding myself really bothered. Much of what this island was is disapearing fast, and all I can get in the way of information is marginal pictures and endangered species lists. I realize that there are probably detailed journals containing better illustrations, and information on reproduction and pollinators. But I want a huge public archive. I want something I can google, so that when I type Anini, (Eurya sandwicensis), into the computer, many beautiful sparkling pictures pop up. In the very shallowest way, I want to be able to see these things for as gorgeous, strange and ugly as they are. Period. There is one book that comes close to doing this, but it doesn't quite answer all of my questions. "Remains of a Rainbow" is excellent for its photography, but being a book is limited by paper space. Some of the pictures that represent an entire plant, are just of it's exquisite little flower buds. I guess after my initial endemic plant image craving, I also want to know what grows around these plants, what feeds on them, and what pollinates them. To what end, and where this drive will take me, I don't know. I guess I'm just aware that there are so many unique things here in Hawaii, and that they are steadily vanishing. I would love to be able to see clones of them, but until money and technology work together on this.. I want to at least remember them. When I look at artwork I see many many pictures of invasive species of things that don't say much except..."I may look good on the wall of a doctors office." How many of you have seen a painting of a bird of paradise on the wall at the docs?
Ok. Enough of my rant. I just have to figure out a way to make my database a reality and to make it productive. *Sigh.
Oh yeah, My artwork is selling well. It's giving me quite a nice chunk of change. Too bad cost of living is so high here.
I'm working on a series of endemic and indigenous tree (wood burnt paintings). These trees here on Hawaii, and Maui in particular, take care of a lot of the younger arrivals - including less invasive plants brought by the first Polynesians - so I call the series "Family Tree." When I look at my work I think about how Grandma C's mom wood burnt boxes during the depression, and I remember a box that Grandma told me she made (but now denies vehemently). In doing this, my paintings become a family tree on a few levels. The technique, the use of wood, and the subject all speak of the Hawaiian concept of "Ohana."
> http://www.eastmauiwatershed.org/art/2005_images.htm#baranyk
Ok. Enough of my rant. I just have to figure out a way to make my database a reality and to make it productive. *Sigh.
Oh yeah, My artwork is selling well. It's giving me quite a nice chunk of change. Too bad cost of living is so high here.
I'm working on a series of endemic and indigenous tree (wood burnt paintings). These trees here on Hawaii, and Maui in particular, take care of a lot of the younger arrivals - including less invasive plants brought by the first Polynesians - so I call the series "Family Tree." When I look at my work I think about how Grandma C's mom wood burnt boxes during the depression, and I remember a box that Grandma told me she made (but now denies vehemently). In doing this, my paintings become a family tree on a few levels. The technique, the use of wood, and the subject all speak of the Hawaiian concept of "Ohana."
> http://www.eastmauiwatershed.org/art/2005_images.htm#baranyk