Lu: Gift From the Sea

Kupesi Pattern

Kupesi Pattern

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Untitled, detail: inside

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Ngatu Variations in Origami

Brazen Bones

Patchwork

Corned Beef

Tongan

EONS

8 Years

Hova in a Bottle

Lei

Dreams Wrapped in Blue

Lalanga Lou’akau

Mirrored Sequence

Husky

Manupuna

Manupuna, detail: back

Ta’e Ngata

Kapa Ika

Clash

Group discussion

Printing from the mini letterpress

Fully processed plate

Sun exposure

Preparing banana leaves for feast

Lesson on Tongan Patterns

Drying ngatu (tapa cloth)

Beating hiapo bark into ngatu

Tutu (beating out) ngatu

Boiling down the koka dye

Boiling down the squeezed juice from the koka bark for red dye

Shaving koka bark for dye

Shaving off koka tree bark for red dye

Scraping off the outer bark of the mulberry tree.

Weaving a basket to squeeze out the koka dye out of fau bark

Demonstrating photo polymer plate processing

Final day’s critique

Setting up the photo polymer plate exposure

Template for photo polymer plate exposure

Completely processed plate

Final day’s feast