Mary Ann Leigh and Ted Loberg. Collaborating on these art pieces present an opportunity to share in creating one concept by taking two materials and approaching the work from opposite directions.
Tim Garcia with the Lama Gyaltsen (at the stupa) and Lori Koprowski. Walking The Stupa – A collaboration, a journey, a transition.
Suzy Papanikolas with Richard Tillinghast, award-winning poet and travel writer, and calligrapher Linda Jenson. The approaches taken allude to Asian art, and the result is of dancers, chanters and musicians from Hawai’i’s hula culture, traditional and modern at the same time.
Jim Powlan with Steve Gera. The art pieces represent the harmony of man and nature. We are using new techniques never tried before – blending etched & inked copper with paint and clear coating, mounted onto hand built wood forms finished in Koa.
About this video
Four partnerships in one video. Mary Ann Leigh and Ted Loberg — married 38 years — combined his hand-finished Philippine mahogany with her vertically-fired, oxide-glazed ceramic ribbons in “Dawn to Dusk”: walk toward it one way and Lāna’i glows in warm copper morning tones; approach from the other side and it cools into evening blues. Their second piece reaches ceramic hands out of a bamboo thicket — anyone who has wandered too deep into a bamboo forest will understand. Tim Garcia sought out the lama at the Pā’ia stupa, and walking the stupa became his meditation; carver-painter Lori Koprowski incised his milo and monkeypod panels with feminine forms, butterflies, and silver.
Suzy Papanikolas painted Maui’s sea cliffs in the spirit of classical Chinese brush painting, joined by award-winning poet Richard Tillinghast, whose spare, haiku-influenced poems were lettered onto the canvases by calligrapher Linda Jenson. And Jim Powlan reached out to builder Steve Gera to create “Story Lines” — tar-painted, acid-etched copper panels mounted on curved wood forms, telling Maui’s story from the storms that seeded a newborn volcanic island through agriculture, many cultures arriving, and the land’s return to nature.
