Techno Art

Saturday's continuing ventures throughout Oahu landed me at the Hawaii State Art Museum.

The museum houses only modern art and displays art from the State Foundation for Culture and the Arts Art in Public Places Program. Hawai'i sets aside 1 percent of the cost of state buildings for the aquisition of art.

Things learned. A technical person shouldn't visit a modern art museum by themselves. Kept thinking.....thats definitely a wierd shape.....but realized with someone to talk to woulda ended up thinking more along the lines of "that looks like it might be this....what do you think?"

Also, would have found it more interesting with descriptions of the processes creating the pieces. Am interested in learning how the raku firing process works to create ceramics (the ceramics look like metal kinda).

The two neatest works I saw: A column of cedar sliced into sections on one vertical half and then the sections split at various spots. The wood reacts to humidity so the sections will widen or narrow depending on the moisture in the air. The other was a bust of an Egyptian god/goddess figure. It was made out of honeycomb. The artist builds a form and then puts the form in a box with honeybees....the bees do their thing.

Proof proven am a technical person (I guess).

This venture also ended up in one half my body developing a tan/burn......