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February 24, 2005
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Aloha all...
I was painting PF Greenbacks (see the paint on my finger). As of the 21st, I had these Purple Feather Greenbacks completed this far:
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Today is the 24th and here is where I am with the next 2-1/2 X 3-1/2 inch Purple Feather Greenbacks:
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But, I've already decided to make some changes in the planning of this project...(I'm not going to go back and change what I've already put in earlier Artmails). My basic plan is to acquire the funding for my boomerangart.com website's expenses including transportation and accommodation expenses when traveling in order to take the photographs which will appear in these pages. At the present time, AlohaRangs of Hawaii is the only Sponsor...it's my old boomerang company (that has not been selling boomerangs for a long time). My plan is to fund a "website travel account" with AlohaRangs. I will be able to use a AlohaRangs' bank ATM card or check to pay for the above kinds of expenses...there will be a record of all of those expenses. I receive no salary, but will continue to publish these web pages for anyone to enjoy...free of charge or and free of commercial ads.
I soon will be auctioning five Kanaloa PF Greenback on ebay as a test.
My goal is to eventually generate US $1000 from Sponsors for each of the ten Purple Feather People. I have put a value of at least US $25 for each Greenback. (40 X $25 = $1000). I plan to start the bidding on each PF Greenback at $24.99. (I'll explain more about this part later).
The original Santa Hat Greenbacks numbers 10 through 20 will remain, but some will be changed to become Kanaloa PF Greenbacks (more work for me):
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This kind...
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this kind will become...
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...this kind...Kanaloa PF Greenbacks!
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Instead of 50 Greenbacks for the drawing, I will have only a total of 40. That means the owner of each Greenback will have a 1 out of 40 chance to win the choice of one of these Purple Feather People (for keeps):
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Click on them (some aren't finished, yet).
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PFP 03
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PFP 13***
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.PFP 16.......................PFP 17............................PFP 18...........................PFP 19.............................PFP 20............................PFP 21
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...PFP 22.........................PFP 23.............................PFP 25...................................PFP 26..................................PFP 28
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Painting Greenbacks on cocofiber is much easier than painting palm frond bases as Purple Feather People and more interesting for me. I don't know of any other painter who is painting on cocofiber (on both sides, much less) with acrylics. Each little fiber gets coated and protected with plastic. It feels 'good' to hold these cocofiber acrylic paintings. It's difficult to describe how or why...one just has to experience it (I imagine).
In the photo above, you can see some changes taking place in how I set up the fiber to begin painting. The two Greenbacks which, so far, are blank, look like this on the other sides:
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(These Greenbacks are not cut to size, here).
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I guess I didn't really 'see' them while I was doing the painting. Up until now, I was selecting the 'best' place on the large piece of fiber to mark as the Greenback. On the above, I picked the natural center seam of the fiber for the placement of the purple feather. As you can see, I paid no attention to placing that seam and feather in the center of the Greenback. I didn't see how misplaced they were until I looked at them here. (I am learning a lot about techniques of painting on cocofiber with each Greenback). What I will do with the purple feather side of Greenbacks from now on is make sure the darker green corners form more of an oval (better than the one on the left) and the feather rib is straight and in the middle of the Greenback. Then in the darker green corners, I'm going to paint little dollar signs ($) because, after all, these are 'greenbacks' which will generate the funding for the website expenses. (Airlines and accommodation people will not accept PF Greenbacks for payment).
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It's February 27th. I am going to head in a different direction with the PF Greenbacks...it's a "fork in the road"...one tine leads into a more Polynesian-based reality. (Before "contact" with Europeans, Polynesian cultures did not have the concept of money. Red feathers were valuable, but mainly status-wise). My fictional safari through various realities with the Purple Feather People will be made up by me...or let's say it comes from a Talking Stick.
Advice from Yogi about forks in the road..."Take it!"
And from Kanaloa, too..."Let's hele."
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This is "heavy duty" stuff in the area known as "Polynesia"...OR...go to Artmail 136 and pics of Waimea Town Celebration 2005.
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On with Kanaloa's Safari with his Purple Feather Greenbacks:
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Some background:..
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Kaua'i is my island paradise. I'm beach person and my beach is a long one...about 13 miles on the Westside of Kaua'i. I've lived and live at both ends of it. Kaua'i is the northernmost inhabited island in Polynesia. Have a look:
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Kaua'i
The arrow points to Polihale...Kekaha is at the other end of the beach.
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Yes, Kekaha is "The Place." And Kekaha Ha'aheo is "Pride of The Place." I now live in Kekaha Ha'aheo 15B. Before, back between 1995 and 2000, I lived in Kekaha Ha'aheo 9C and I had a coconut palm from which I obtained the cocofiber that I am using for the Kanaloa PF Greenbacks:
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Kekaha Ha'aheo 9C in the 90s.
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I had my studio in the parlor of 9C:
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(The unfinsished dolphin window blinds had to be photographed at night...daylight coming through makes the artwork disappear).
If you go back to that row of boomerangs on the left, you will see a Talking Stick.
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I painted it on the cut-off end of a walking stick made by Tattoo Aaron after Iniki at Tumu Nu. (Above - three boomerangs on it).
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Kanaloa is a Talking Stick. A talking stick may be used in Polynesia to receive "communications from ancestor spirits"..."advice from the past," so to speak.
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To the fork's other tine >>>> HERE
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Kanaloa's Greenback Group is growing....
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