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The student artist is using their artwork to bring awareness to historical and contemporary Hawaiian culture in order to prevent its decline, which has been romanticized for tourists. Their early mixed media works highlighted specific issues like pollution, drug use, and how native culture has been cheapened for tourism. More recently, the artwork depicts Hawaii as an isolated land reaching out for help, using glass bottles and canoes as symbols of communication. The pieces feature imagery of extinct specie
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