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June 22, 2004
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Aloha all...
Continuing from Artmail 107: The Purple Feather People project is part of Kanaloa's Safari (or the other way around).
I am interested in Polynesia...its islands, people and culture. The Purple Feather People project will enable me to visit various Polynesian islands of my choice because I plan to paint at least one PFP on a cocopalm base from each of the islands visited. There are a lot of aspects of the PFP project that will happen later on. Now is the time to introduce the sponsorship idea.
The PFPs are going to sponsor boomerangart.com, but specifically the Kanaloa's Safari part. That part includes my circle-the-globe photos posting in the Artmails. Here is the bottom line (sort of):
The PFPs are going to produce this boomerangart.com website into which photographs will be uploaded weekly during Kanaloa's Safari. The labor involved is contributed by Boomerang Art who will do the traveling (his way). The sponsors will pay for transportation and accommodations plus an occasional per diem. The sponsors will upgrade the equipment used during the safari by Boomerang Art.
I don't have time now to update the PFP's web pages or the safari pages (one should check the dates the pages are updated...some have old info). Anyway, I'll use the PFP that I am painting on currently for this explanation...PFP 10:
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PFP 10 as currently on its web page...............and in process of getting painted...
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...and still painting.
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PFP 10 is just one of the palm frond faces that will be used to sponsor boomerangart.com. I have the option of accepting a direct offer "that I cannot refuse" from someone who wants to provide PFP 10 with a home. Even though I no longer have a particular PFP, it will still figure into the growing Purple Feather People Family and its continuing story. The owner may name the PFP and add to or update its story on the PFP's web page on my website or make a website of its own. Who knows where this thing is going? It is part of a living creation in both cyberspace and earthspace. I'm having fun with it and will continue to do so.
Another option for fund raising is to have a special auction held for a limited time period and with a minimum reserve price. Even though the money concept was not part of old Polynesian culture, today money is needed...for transportation and accommodations, etc. You may not have given much thought to how a society could function without money. Here's a little educational side trip, not to Polynesia, but to the Solomon Islands' shell and feather money.
This whole "art package" of mine is very different. The palm fronds are from living coconut palms at Polihale Beach on Kaua'i. As Purple Feather People they have acquired another life and value. The boomerangart.com website has a life, too. All this activity uses the most valuable of commodities....time. One of the activities I like to spend time on while living in my paradise, is playing in the ocean. When I am in the ocean, and focus only on the ocean waves around me, the horizon, the sky and clouds, I have a whole-body experience (the feel of my feet in and on the moving sand...the varying currents of perfect-temperature water on my body...etc.) as did my earliest ancestors who lived near the sea (and as my early boyhood self and through stages of my life since)...it's always a similar experience, but never the same. It's valuable time that I choose to spend that way and it is especially nice shared with a friend.
I have been taking "weather photos" at the beach like these:
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I also take plenty of time for reading. This week:
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Polynesian background information from 1840.................................................
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I took a break to go to Betsi's place to see a video taken at Polihale which included the G-String Band playing its infamous Polihale "in-song":
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.............................................................Betsi, Kolo, Grover, Ginger, Sandra.
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[Continuing on the 24th.]
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Kolo plays ukulele. .......................Purple hibiscus?
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Even though I have been putting in a lot of time in Kekaha (and missing Polihale), I am still living as a traveler. I do not have any animals that need any special care from me. (I have a couple of green anoles (chameleons), a lot of geckos, chickens and cats come by at different times, a lot of singing birds are all around all the time, and when I am watering with a sprinkler, six or eight egrets arrive...anyway, there are a lot of animals about requiring none of my care.
In 15B's small garden area, I can plant and maintain a garden (but no vegetables). The garden that I decided on requires little upkeep and is good for a traveler. I planted boat lilies (oysterplants) as the main ground cover. I have two mosquito plants near the door. I water the plants early in the morning before sunrise. It's very quiet then and some days the clouds are very colorful.
At that time I check the "plant wars" going on in my little yard. I have established a very powerful community of oysterplants. My plan is to have the oysterplants control any weed invasion by becoming so tightly packed in together that weeds cannot get enough light to survive amongst them...but they try. About a month ago I aided the oysterplants by removing weeds in and "choking" near their roots. I found out that the oysterplants' sap can cause an extremely itchy rash that lasts about a week. I'm not going to aid the oysterplants that way again. Check them out:
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July 2003.
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June 2004.
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That's the patch that gave me the itchy rash. I didn't do the patch on the other side of the walk. Look how tightly packed these plants get. The oysterplants have a lot of stored water. The longest that I plan to be away is about three months. My neighbors will squirt water on them periodically, but even it they didn't the oysterplants would survive easily. Same with the other plants. You can see some weeds that have made it though above. This is how I hope it gets all over:
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The oysterplant seems to get rid of leaves that land on it.
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[Continuing on the 25th.]
Yesterday, I spent a lot of time putting my places traveled and places lived into my CouchSurfing profile "locations traveled map," so I didn't finish this page. I had more photos to show this stage of the "plant wars" in my little garden.
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A blury photo of the other side of the walk.
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The battleground.
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You can see how the "weeds" have filled-in tightly around the bases of each oysterplant. That seems to inhibit the usual growth of the oysterplant. That was happening a lot on the other side of the walk. There, I reached my bare arms and hands (Should have worn long sleeves and gloves, you say?) between the plants, grabbing, pulling, digging the weeds from around the oysterplants, leaving bare soil. That seems to have given them an advantage in the war.
On this side of the walk, I'm going to let nature take its course. I think, eventually, the oysterplants will win and I won't have to deal with that itchy rash or weeds.
Between the oysterplant patches and the building, I have to leave space to have two meters to be accessed and read as well as space for my garbage can. Except for the mosquito plants, green onions and ti plant, the rest of the ground cover is volunteers and weeds. Take a look at the battle looming between the spider plant volunteer and the mosquito plant:
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The Spider Plants (and a Coleus volunteer in the upper right).
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Back on the other side of the walk...the tallest plant is an unknown volunteer:
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There's a meter behind those young trees.
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Over at Tashi's, there's another kind of battle going on. Her male King Sago Palm is being attacked by the Asian Cycad Scale (these are insects).
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The male flower of the King Sago Palm.
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The attack of the scale.
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That's it for this week.
Aloha, Art
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