Broken…just right
Some people are good at building things and some are good at destruction. I have found my calling.
More…past and present, here and there
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Some mini artifacts
My eyes are strained and my hands are permanently stained and glued, but I have made some interesting replicas of the Hawaiian artifacts found in the museums mentioned in this blog. Here are some examples and some of the work involved in getting them done. The most fun was working with miniature gourds (called Tennessee […]
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Langorem alium apparere sentio! (I feel another fainting fit coming on)
Good grief, they are eliminating the Latin naming tradition just as I was getting the hang of it. Most of my 99 names in the previous post were correct and I had a good time doing it. Here is the article from the Washington Post: Botanists agree to loosen Latin’s grip
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This is nuts: a mini cape takes shape
The promise to make miniature feather capes for the mini-museum was hanging over me so I decided to tackle it while I was a prisoner in the back seat of a car for 8 hours while driving to Boston. I gathered tools and feathers and a board for my lap and this is what I […]
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Hawaiian capes and cloaks
I have started designing artifacts for the miniature Hawaiian museum. The first things are feather capes which are smaller than the cloak that I showed previously. I drew the capes in Adobe Illustrator using photographs of one real cape and a real cloak which I made smaller. The cloak is from the British Museum collection. […]
MoreLucky finds at the miniature show
One of the artifacts that I hoped to make for my Hawaiian Culture museum was a miniature replica of a feathered cloak that for years was displayed in the Penn Museum. Here is what the cape (called ‘ahu ‘ula) looked like when it was displayed (see the museum website). Sadly, the entire Polynesia display has […]
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The Wonder of Miniature Worlds 