Project Description
About the Piece
Sales price includes custom hand-made wood frame and Plexiglas. As the coast bends towards Waikiki and views open out to Māmala Bay and the distant Waianae mountains, shoreline lots for the wealthy were developed in the early 1900s with a bluestone lava rock wall built close to the water’s edge. The enormous blocks of roughly dressed stone have worn well, with the feel of belonging to the natural environment, an element of beauty and wonder that we often take as a given on this unique part of the coast, knowing that these walls could never be built today.
About the Artist
Lifelong resident of Hawaii, Steve Yuen is an architect and urban designer by education, and has returned to art and printmaking in the last several years. He has also been involved in the planning and design of interpretive and visitor facilities in the natural and cultural landscape. Recent work includes design on an integrated community resource, village center and surf park including health, recreation and sustainable agriculture in Palm Desert, California and Austin, Texas. The interpretation of place within a representational approach can provide a deep yet simple understanding about ourselves and our existence, often in ways that are increasingly overlooked in the prevailing evolution of contemporary visual media. I have been influenced by American landscape painters and the value of legible meaning. After years of drawing by hand in architecture and design, I have embraced a different creative process using an electronic medium in which all objects are created from scratch and as a computer drawing. While modeling software is used, the end goal is entirely the creation of 2-dimensional images. The original is thus recorded as electronic image file, and the manifestation of that as a print has been created with archival quality printing.