This weekend, I went to an art collaboration with five artists at the Wailoa Center in downtown Hilo. At the entrance you are drawn immediately to this free floating cascade of 1001 cranes and want to be immersed in all the colors, forms and patterns presented.
The light and colors pull you in to reach out and admire these paper objects up close and personal.
At a closer view you see that there is a story - and it says that the cranes are made with love and are dedicated to the local Hilo Hospice with any donations. You can take home a whole strand of these lovely pieces home and then leave a nice string/donation card to claim your art piece that you would like to take with you.
It was a very nice gesture ...very simple, yet profound.
It is amazing how the curator, blended so many complementary forms of arts to include a silk/textile artists, a landscape painter, a wood sculpture/wood worker, a cement/sculpture and a glass artist. The Wailoa Center is a beautiful art center with a huge volcano like fountain jutting out into the middle of the open courtyard, really unique and powerful.
If your in Hilo town, come and visit the show at the Wailoa Center, its open for the month.
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I love the pictures in this post and the dedication to Hospice. Such a magical manmade wonder!
ReplyDeletegreat post indeed. The cranes captures are more than wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the visit.
Have a nice day!
Those were so neat to see so many in one space. I would love to visit your area someday.
ReplyDeleteMahalo for sharing! And what a great bennefit! Aloha
ReplyDeleteOh wow, that is just beautiful! Those cranes are sensational. And those landscape paintings are terrific. I wish I could fly out to Hilo to see this exhibit.
ReplyDeleteI love those cranes, I remember my niece made a jar and gave it to my wedding as a gift. She said she made it one at a time when she's still studying in St. Elizabeth in Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteOh, how gorgeous... they brought back memories of a history/craft project in the third grade for Sadako and the thousand paper cranes.
ReplyDeleteThat's really lovely ! all these paper birds !
ReplyDeleteI agree...the cranes are magical! And what a wonderful way to raise money for hospice.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful thing to Do!
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amazing work of art! love it!
ReplyDeletebeautiful! those paintings on the last image are well done..such a talent of the painter!
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Wearing a circle of cranes on me own, this was surely interesting and indeed amazing to see - refreshingly promising of hope. Please have a great Thursday.
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Very pretty indeed! Thanks for dropping by last week for the photo hunt post ;)
ReplyDeleteI really love your photos of the origami cranes! We do that here, too. We call it Senba-zuru, where we fold 1000 paper cranes and give them to people who are in the hospital in hopes they will get better :-)
ReplyDeletereally neat. I love the cranes and their symbol of love. I believe Chinese people fold 1000 cranes for their loved ones. My husband will just have to take my word for it!
ReplyDeleteLovely. I'm attracted to the cranes - in fact I've been painting and sketching them recently. In Japanese culture, 1000 cranes represents good luck... Thanks for sharing these pics.
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