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"Mixed Heritage Art", Laura Kina
"Mixed Heritage Art", Laura Kina
Laura Kina
"Mixed Heritage Art."Mixed Heritage Center. December 2007 . (essay) An introductory overview essay for the Mixed Heritage Center Arts section.
Art Series - Aloha Dreams, Laura Kina
Art Series - Aloha Dreams, Laura Kina
Laura Kina
Aloha Dreams (2007) In this mixed media painting series and installation, Kina examines her Orientalist impulse for heritage tourism. Looking nostalgically at her family’s history as Okinawan sugar cane plantation workers on the Big Island of Hawaii, she ultimately finds herself through mediated pop images of paradise and in the very real space of a Midwestern Vietnamese nail salon. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/aloha.html