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View fullsize “Still Finding My Way Back Home” (swipe for close-ups) | New work made for the Hawai’i Triennial 2025: Aloha Nō. Entirely hand-stitched by yours truly (idk how to use a sewing machine lol), and made of many, many parts — natur
View fullsize from first envisioning this work in 2018, this is a piece 7+ years in the making — only a small fraction of which is shown here behind me. 7 years spent working with kapa and natural dyes, collecting vintage japanese silk and cotton scraps, gat
View fullsize “Since the Beginning and End of Time,” hand-embroidery and shell buttons on indigo-dyed kapa | Making this special kapa cloak for ‘Transgressors’ — an all-Indigiqueer exhibition — was such a labor of love. A remind
View fullsize i **hand-stitched** this indigo-dyed kapa patchwork quilt this summer for my solo exhibition in washington, but hadn’t gotten around to taking photos of it like i’d wanted to. since it’s a big quilt, it only felt right to wrap it ar
View fullsize just finished this piece for an upcoming show (my first in nyc) 🤍— earth pigments and gold leaf on kapa, 28 x 28 inches. thinking about portals, transformation, resonance, and the mana our language holds. this piece is the first in what will b
View fullsize finally getting around to sharing pics of this piece commissioned for Portland State University 💫 this was my first public art commission, and i learned so much in the process. creating three 15-foot long dyed kapa tapestries was no easy feat, and n
View fullsize my newest wearable ‘a‘ahu / cloak garment made entirely from hand-stitched indigo-dyed kapa, and hand-embroidered with literally thousands of little stars 💫✨ after about about two weeks of nonstop work last month and ~ 300 finger pokes,
View fullsize still not over how this photoshoot with @leahrosephoto turned out ✨ the wind didn’t make it easy but i think it made things better — #kapa #tapa #barkcloth #hawaiianbarkcloth #barkclothartist #nativehawaiian #nativehawaiianartist #pacifi
View fullsize nearing the final stages of this kapa installation in-progress for @portlandstate — after over a year of planning, soaking and beating the kapa, dyeing the tapestries, designing plant quilt patterns, and individually hand-stitching them to each
View fullsize maine dump 🌿 first time out this way was worth it to gather with a group of talented fellow Indigiqueer artists and writers. should’ve taken more pics tho, but grateful to have connected with incredible folks from previous @riseindigenous coho
View fullsize i created this pattern back in 2017, but i’ve been wanting to make a bigger kapa with this pattern for a while, so i did. this is just a little detail. 💫 swipe to see my studio assistant in action #kapa #tapa #barkcloth #hawaiianbarkcloth #b
View fullsize recent pics with @leahrosephoto — it was so windy but we were able to make the vision come to life for some new upcoming projects. shoutout to Leah for the incredible skills once again, and shoutout to the canyon and winds for being the perfect