The Volcano Art Center (VAC) invites you to attend Still It Is Night, a fine art exhibition featuring etchings by Domino Cohn and ethnobotanical drawings by Paula de la Cruz at the Volcano Art Center Gallery in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. The free exhibit will be on display from February 21st through March 29th, 9am -5pm daily. While the exhibit is free, park entrance fees apply.
Still It Is Night presents a series of etched imaginings and ethnobotanical drawings, blending the precision of scientific illustration with the expressive possibilities of mark-making in metal. The series is rooted in the abundant imagery of the Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation chant that unfolds the genesis of life in poetic dualities. The exhibition invites viewers to explore how art through its observation of detail, precise incisions, and rigor  can be deployed to grapple with the fluid demarcation between thinking and knowing.
Domino and Paula began collaborating in 2024. Their first joint venture, Still It Is Night, is borne of their mutual belief that there is much to learn from Hawaiian culture. They feel a shared responsibility as artists to perpetuate traditions and call attention to endangered native flora. This project is a meditation on connection how ancestral knowledge reverberates beyond cultural boundaries, inviting all to listen, reflect, and learn. Through Still It Is Night they ask the viewer: “under keen observation, what could emerge from our own darkness both personally and collectively? What kauna, or hidden meaning, remains stubbornly out of view?”
For more information about the exhibition visit www.volcanoartcenter.org, or contact the VAC Gallery at (808) 967-7565. Volcano Art Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created in 1974 whose mission is to promote, develop and perpetuate the artistic, cultural and environmental heritage of Hawaiʻi’s people through arts and education.
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