Handmade sewing needle perforations through paper. Seriously. This is the stunning work of Hawaii based artist {and Associate Professor of Art at the University of Hawaii at Monoa} Wendy Kawabata. I’m going to let her explain what this series, titled “Blind Worlds” is about:
This series looks at a range of social engagement from pacifism to activism,
futility, rebuilding; the paths we travel, the ones we donʼt, the urge to protect,
to defend, or withdraw; the voices heard, the ones drowned out. Wrapping
thread, piercing paper with a needle, or staining and seaming together paper,
reveal a process that is overt in its construction and economy, and provide
a space for quiet, reconciliation, and attentiveness. The repetition is the insistence
and pressure of exterior environment onto interior experience.
Way to go, Wendy! Happy to see a HI artist here. Cheehooo!
I love how delicate and subtle these are.