Description
Red Road Reoriented emerges from my long, intimate relationship with the Red Road in Lower Puna in Hawaii—a place I’ve walked, driven, painted, and lived alongside for years. Rather than depicting the road as a literal path, this painting reflects how it feels to inhabit it: layered, unstable, alive with memory and movement.
The surface is built from fractured bands of color—greens, ochres, yellows, blues, and earthy reds—stacked, shifted, and interwoven like pieces of landscape constantly rearranging themselves. Drips and dark passages move through the composition, echoing rain, lava-stained earth, and the unseen forces shaping the land beneath. Nothing settles into a fixed perspective; the painting resists a single orientation, much like road itself, which continues to change through volcanic activity, weather, and time.
This work is about re-seeing a familiar place after disruption—allowing fragments to fall apart and reassemble into a new understanding. It holds both chaos and rhythm, rupture and continuity. Reoriented Red Road speaks to resilience and adaptation, to living within a landscape that demands attentiveness, humility, and a willingness to let go of what once was in order to make space for what is still forming.
