Annika Felder
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Native Hawaiians have always been excellent orators and eloquent storytellers: not just through words but also through mele (song), oli (chant), and hula (dance). These traditions of sharing histories, genealogies, and ways of knowing and believing were transmitted over generations, shaping people into ‘living libraries’. This visual reader weaves together Hawaiian poetry, chants, and symbolism with photography designed to celebrates the natural riches and hertiage of Hawaiian culture and its rich storytelling culture.
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2018
THE COLORS OF THE LAND
Many of the stories are closly intertwined with the land. Like the Hawaiian creation story about Wākea, ‘Sky Father,’ the god of light and the heavens, and Papahānaumoku, ‘Earth Mother,’ the goddess of the earth and the underworld - forming a union of heaven and earth. This has led to the foundational principal of the book - colors that originate directly in the earth. The colors of the water, the sky, the earth and the volcano.
ARCHIVE OF HAWAIIAN SYMBOLS
The book shows a collection of polynesian objects and symbols that are often used as a representation of ideas, emotions, phrases, movements, memories, traditions, customs and heritage. The create a rich visual language – an alphabet or language on its own.
RESILIENCE
The publication is meant as an ode to a culture that has endured profound upheaval. From the unlawful overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 to the subsequent prohibition of the Hawaiian language in schools, systemic marginalization nearly extinguished many of these traditions. This book illustrates the vitality of the heritage and the sustained continuity of indigenous knowledge systems into the present day.
