Project Description
About the Piece
Sales price includes custom hand-made wood frame and Plexiglas. A first observation of the Pang’s house concerns the extraordinary extent of the water and marsh surrounding, with the great older trees forming a continuous canopy overhead. Such a setting might be associated with a windward environment, yet here in Waipahu was a place of richly abundant water and lush landscape. After continual clearing over a period of years, including the removal of the large trees, the house was left open to view. Finally, the house itself was gone, and all that remains today is a generally featureless lawn.
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.