Taken on Maui, printed in New York City as edible frosting layers intended for cakes, and later transferred by brush onto fine art watercolor paper by hand, "Lacuna" charts my travels throughout the historic sites and landscapes of Maui looking for scenes and moments that represent the social realities and tensions that run through the island. It is ultimately about how we consume culture.
The fact that Maui is a stock honeymoon destination called to mind weddings and wedding cakes. It was from there that it made sense to print on an edible surface since so much of this experience was about how we consume culture as well as making a gesture to the resource (sugar) that the first wave of Filipino immigrants labored to cultivate.
Looking for the cracks in the facade, I began to see life on Maui as an absurd and elaborate topiary.
