COMING TO BEING

Somewhere among the chaos tht is 800 blocks of timber, artist NIcole Naone sees the forest for the trees. Her latest sculpture, Being, is her most audacious to date—cutting, shaping, piecing together a complex vision of disparate shapes and sizes to create a whole and discernable form, as if carving through the confusion toward a more tangible clarity.

ARTISTIC BODIES

Artist Nicole Naone, a recent graduate of the University of Hawaii-Manoa’s fine art department, with one of her fiberglass sculptures.It’s hard to imagine a towering wooden horse described as voluptuous, but in the case of sculptor Nicole Naone’s horse, it is.