Banana fiber, hao fiber, native cotton, feathers

Mary Ching is a painter and printmaker who has been experimenting with combining modern techniques with materials used in Hawaiian crafts, creating work that bridges the contemporary and the traditional.

Responder updated this value. Hypena obsoleta is a native species that, sadly, is now considered extinct. I have used native plants as much as possible to recreate this moth. Banana sheaths from my backyard were dried and cut up. Hao branches from Aina Haina valley were collected, stripped and dried. A friend gathered native cotton in Mōʻiliʻili which I cleaned and combed. The feathers, however, were purchased from Amazon.com - no feral chickens were disturbed in this project.