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Item Texture of time(2025) Megahy, Hala; Taylor, Brad E.; ArtItem Near miss [afterimage](2025) Connelly, Rosemary; Groeniger, Scott D.; ArtItem Invisible landscapes(2025) Sakurai, Hiroko; Monakhov Stockton, Yola; ArtItem Suspended Moments(2024) battan, enrico gino; Mills, Rick L; ArtItem FOR THE FUTURE: GENEALOGIES OF RESISTANCE IN HAWAIʻI(2024) matsuda, mari j.; Groeniger, Scott; ArtItem Mindscape(2024) Sullivan, Erik Ryan; Kawabata, Wendy; ArtItem Atlas of the Disappearing(2021) Fedorov, Ava; Drexler, Debra; ArtItem Pag+mul+mula+an: an Ilokano Place of Planting(2020) Goldschmidt, Rebecca Maria; Ferreira, Jose; Chan, Gaye; ArtItem Openings(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008-12) Jones-Lillie, Michelle; Mills, Richard L.My Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Openings, entailed two thematically connected, but spatially separate installations: a sculpture trail and gallery installation, both of which opened to the public on the evening of Thursday, August 28, 2008. Two years earlier, I camped in the forest along Tantalus Arboretum Trail for one week and kept a detailed journal of my dreams. Over the course of the next 24 months, I translated the dreams into three-dimensional form, which changed their sensual tangibility. The culmination of this study, a series of sculptural works, has become, in part, a permanent installation along the hiking trail where the dreams were realized and recorded. The purpose was to create a truly site-specific sculptural installation derived from communicative dream experiences from the site. The gallery component of my thesis exhibition was a multi-media installation held in the Commons Gallery at the Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawaii, at Manoa. This installation provided the audience with a sensory experience that aimed to demystify some of the inner workings of my mind when I was engaged in the creative process, in particular, when I created the site-specific sculpture trail. An opening performance initiated the entire event. This performance took place in the gallery at 6:00 p.m. and buses transported all of the guests to and from the sculpture trail from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.Item Liminal Matter(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2022) Everett, Jacob James; Drexler, Debra; ArtLiminal Matter investigates the industrial landscape as a permanent state of liminality. Broken down into three main bodies—The Doors of Separation, The Limen, and The Vehicles of Initiation—the exhibition is physically characterized by discarded matter that facilitates a rite of passage for the material, the artist, and the viewer. The artist’s studio overlooks a loading dock, an environment in flux where materials come and go. The exhibition interprets discarded material and objects as liminal matter; no longer serving their previous existence as commodities, they possess an ambiguous identity that hovers between form and intended function. First coined by Arnold van Gennep, the term liminality is used to describe the time in which people are on the threshold of entering a new phase in their life, having left the previous one behind. The limen, said to act as a membrane, holds the tension between one space or condition and another. It is in these transitional moments that transformation can occur.