Project Description
About the Piece
Sales price includes custom hand-made wood frame and Plexiglas. Aware of the historical presence of the Chinese in Kula, on one of our trips we search for some remaining evidence of this immigrant community that once farmed the upcountry area. The mist that occurs in Kula is often thin and appears to drift over the open hills as it is blown along by the wind. Directly above, billowing clouds can be seen as one looks back toward the big mountain, Haleakalā. In between these patches of fog drifting by, strong sunlight brings out the intense colors of the landscape.
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.