OCD TUTORIAL
3'x1.5'x1', repurposed wood
A table that holds things below its surface. Function dictated by negative space. A carton of cigarettes, a sculpture by a friend, a flocked baby hammer, condom three pack, a salt and pepper shaker, a magazine, a tube of lip gloss - they live here in comfort because they’re supposed to.
8”x6”x7”, repurposed wood with flocking
Presenting my favorite tool (my cigarettes) in my favorite language of organized beauty. This is jig - an object I made to help me make other things.
6"x4"x8", repurposed wood
“A small bone that articulates with the sacrum and that usually consists of four fused vertebrae which form the terminus of the spinal column.” Usually.
6"x4"x8", repurposed wood
“A small bone that articulates with the sacrum and that usually consists of four fused vertebrae which form the terminus of the spinal column.” Usually.
4‘x5’7’, repurposed wood
Black and white doesn’t produce gray. It exposes a figure that is both the victor and the victim, the predator and the prey. Articulated with sharp edges against and cooperating with its more flexible volumes, the tension found in simultaneously inviting and repelling desire surfaces. Applying my own geometry on to a material that can endure it, I emerge from rigidity with an exploration of extremes that necessitates order ultimately.
4‘x5’7’, repurposed wood
Black and white doesn’t produce gray. It exposes a figure that is both the victor and the victim, the predator and the prey. Articulated with sharp edges against and cooperating with its more flexible volumes, the tension found in simultaneously inviting and repelling desire surfaces. Applying my own geometry on to a material that can endure it, I emerge from rigidity with an exploration of extremes that necessitates order ultimately.
3'x1.5'x1', repurposed wood
A table that holds things below its surface. Function dictated by negative space. A carton of cigarettes, a sculpture by a friend, a flocked baby hammer, condom three pack, a salt and pepper shaker, a magazine, a tube of lip gloss - they live here in comfort because they’re supposed to.
3'x1.5'x1', repurposed wood
A table that holds things below its surface. Function dictated by negative space. A carton of cigarettes, a sculpture by a friend, a flocked baby hammer, condom three pack, a salt and pepper shaker, a magazine, a tube of lip gloss - they live here in comfort because they’re supposed to.
Currently, the bikini continues its tradition of surfing waves of toxicity, as a symbol for the over sexualization and objectification of female pro-surfers. This site specific installation holds a cornered space of silence for the history of Bikini and the bikini.
Filmmaker Christopher Kahunahana, Kumu Hula Lanakila Mangauil and Artist Nicole Naone; take their protection of Maunakea to the Honolulu Museum of Art with a fully immersive installation.
Hawaiians Unite is a moving, short film made for MTV Entertainment Studios’ AAPI Heritage Month. It was created and directed by native Hawaiian filmmaker Nicole Naone. The idea derived from 18th century Hawaiian history, a time of warring chiefdoms between the islands.
WAIKIKI is the first fictional feature by a Native Hawaiian produced through the Sundance Labs, and historically one of the only dramatic feature films from a Hawaiian director.
“Being” is Naoneʻs largest wooden sculpture to date. It has been displayed at the University of Hawaii Manoa, The Waikiki Park Hotel, as well as the The Garage.
The mass series existed as a means to process to a few life events occurring simultaneously in the Spring of 2010.
This video was included in a site-responsive multi-media installation for the KJ Baysa curated exhibition "Mauna Kea" as a part of the Honolulu Biennial selects program.
In this site specific installation, Nicole Naone pairs footage of the 1983 Mākua Valley evictions with oli corresponding to its ahupuaʻa, with memorization and a loud voice being key elements to the art oli, Naone presents them perversely via another colonizer art form- Karaoke.
A resigned surfboard. Touching on the language of change specific to Hawai’i, these pieces present a structuring of organic materials into faceted forms. Through them the subtleties of progress are presented.
A table that holds things below its surface. Function dictated by negative space. A carton of cigarettes, a sculpture by a friend, a flocked baby hammer, condom three pack, a salt and pepper shaker, a magazine, a tube of lip gloss - they live here in comfort because they’re supposed to.
Centered around a week-long event in Hawaii, POW! WOW! has grown into a global network of artists and organizes gallery shows, lecture series, schools for art and music, mural projects, a large creative space named Lana Lane Studios, concerts, and live art installations across the globe.
Oiran (花魁) – high-ranking courtesans of the feudal period in Japan – wore tall, lacquered koma-geta or mitsu-ashi (literally, "three legs") when walking in a parade with their attendants.
