Title of Event:Bone carving studio
Date and time of event: Thursday Feb, 28th
Location of Event: Kailua, Oahu
Type of Event: Studio tour
1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended. I visited a native Hawaiian’s Bone carving studio. Using cow bones, fossilized whale bones, fish bones and water buffalo horn, the bone carvers create unique shapes and symbols that carry different meanings in hawaiian culture. The art began as a method of sustenance, the natives made fish hooks from the bones and through the centuries art spawned from it. The process entailed selecting the bone that best accomodates the form being carved, a drawing of the form being done, roughing out on a band saw, then finer details being cut on a scroll saw, and finally the fine detail being done with a dremel and exacto knife. The one I purchased is a traditional fish hook made from cow bone that represents a provider, and head of a family.
2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal criticalinsight / response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
I found the specific meanings to be very interesting, and the variety, everything from fish hooks to spirals to octopus, and everyhting had a specific meaning and level of detail appropriate for each, the hooks are done with amazing detail while the sea life is left morte vague almost like a cave painting. Overlla the entire experience was very interesting and loaded with the depth of culture and an art that has been practiced and carried down for hundred of years.
3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
The levle of detail and aesthetic quality really impressed me. they make this bone look like pearl through buffing and the detail is almost hard to believe.
4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)? 9
eight 5.) Justify your rating in the question above:
I think the experience was awesome, but unlike the tiki i was expecting it to be like it was and i like experiencing new and cool concepts ideas, and processes.