Kapulani Landgraf is a Native Hawaiian multi-disciplinary artist, working with black and white photography, collage and mixed media installation. Her work is guided by her traditional Hawaiian values, language, and culture and a compulsion to both celebrate her Hawaiian culture and comment on the profound changes that have happened and continue to occur in Hawaiʻi by ongoing foreign intrusion and its impact on Hawaiian rights and history. Although much of Landgraf’s work laments the violations on the Hawaiian people, land and its natural resources, it also offers hope with allusions to the strength and resilience of Hawaiian land and lāhui (Hawaiian people).
Image: Kapulani Landgraf, Kahulumanu (Treasured bird feathers), 2011. Hand-etched silver gelatin prints on netting. 45 x 69 x 2 1/2 inches. Image courtesy of the artist