Project Description
About the Piece
“Night Marchers at Diamond Head” The screenprint Night Marchers at Diamond Head contains images of the famous 100 steps within Diamond Head which lead from a tunnel, at the lower right of the print, to the upper-most bunkers at the top. Walking on this trail in petroglyph form is a line of spirited night marchers—mythical figures who inhabit Hawaii’s culture, Hawaii’s dreams, and perhaps Hawaii’s trails.
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.