We were asked to create a mural specifically for a wall of the the Honolulu Museum of Art's Doris Duke Theatre for the first World Oceans Day Hawai'i, an event that seeks to raise awareness about ocean environmental issues of both global and Hawaiian specific concern. The event took place June 6-12, 2014. The mural is installed in the museum for the whole summer of 2014.
Our 58 foot long printed mural, "Pacific Drift: Hawaii" installed at the Honolulu Museum of Art's Doris Duke Theatre for the Summer of 2014.
Originally created in 2008 for an exhibition in Amsterdam, we populated the image with endemic Hawaiian species for the "World Oceans Day Hawaii" event, as well as honu, specifically for this location.
Opening night of the film festival for "World Oceans Day Hawai'i" was talso he debut of our mural at the museum.
The narrative of the panoramic is the classic battle between bunnyfish and the trash monsters, coagulated masses of human refuse, that are moving out from their birthplace in the North Pacific Gyre, destroying everything in their path on the way towards human civilization on land. The coral reefs (and we humans by proxy even though we probably don't deserve it) however have defenders - the bunnyfish! A school of bunnyfish is defending this reef with their teeth and tails. Can bunnyfish somehow eat and digest all this plastic and garbage?
kozy stretching out during installation of the mural.
The installation of the mural took 3 days.
