Aloha PACIFIC SUPERHEROES, if you’re around the way on Oahu Island please go and check out this photographic exhibition ‘Reawakening’ currently at Honolulu Hale. Its supporting and cultivating the healing process for families who are hurt with the pains of incarceration, especially the pains that our children carry. This is a programme that I hope can gain more support and recognition through out the pacific, as we all know art as therapy is a liberty of expression with emotion,spirit, being and life force where words may not have been so free to dance. Peace + Luv PACIFIC SUPERHEROES, mahalo nui ohana!!!
‘Project Focus Hawaii was established in 2005 as a means of enriching the lives of children suffering from emotional or physical problems. Through photography, like any art which can be used as a tool for healing and self-exploration, children of incarcerated women, acting as both photographers and subjects, have presented “Reawakening”, a collaborative exhibtion with Ka Hale Ho’ala Hou no na Wahine and the Women’s Community Correctional Centre [WCCC] on O’ahu. The project lasted 12 weeks during the summer. Photographers Laurie Callies and Lisa Uesugi made portraits of the children, who, in turn, photographed their mothers at prison, using Holga cameras. The exhibition is currently displayed at the Honolulu Hale courtyard 8am - 4.30pm weekdays, through til 29 January. For more info click here’
