Genre
Screenprint

Technique/Media Used
Screenprinting

Date Created
07/01/2000

Dimensions
36″ x 20″ x 1″

About the Piece

Looking Diamond Head. The title of this screenprint emphasizes Diamond Head’s prominence as a geographical reference point. From all over Honolulu people can see some portion or section of this landmark. Just as Diamond Head historically has been divided and arbitrarily broken up by its various controllers and possessors, so too people today can have only partial and fragmented views of this famous cone.

About the Artist

Laura Ruby is a 2015 Hawaii Living Treasure Honoree and a 2008 recipient of the Hawai’i Individual Artist Fellowship (the highest honor in the visual arts). Her prints and sculptures have been shown in national and international solo, juried, and invitational exhibitions. Her essay and a selection of her prints from the “Nancy Drew Series” are published in Rediscovering Nancy Drew (1995). She continues to create her “Diamond Head Series” of prints and installation sculptures. She has created large site-specific sculptures including The Battle of Mōʻiliʻili (2016), Chinatown—Site of Passage (1994), Stage Set­–Mise en Scene (1991), and Cromlech (1980). She is currently working on a large Historic Honoka’a Town Project as researcher and writer compiling historical photographs, documents, and interviews. She taught art and honors at the University of Hawaii for 34 years, and she edited the book Mo‘ili‘ili–The Life of a Community (2005), and co-authored the books Honolulu Town (2012) and Honokaa Town (2015) with Ross W. Stephenson.