Photography by Jan Becket and watercolors by Dawn Yoshimura

Exhibit honoring the landscape from Malaea to Kaʻena sponsored by Koa Ike Foundation committed to preserving the wahipana of Waianae ʻohana.

For many years, Dawn Yoshimura and Jan Becket have visited a small section of the Waiʻanae coast from Kepuhi Point to Kaʻena Point. This exhibit contains their reflections of the ahupuaʻa of Keaʻau, ʻŌhikilolo, Mākua, Keawaʻula and Kaʻena—an area that is more broadly referred to by some Waiʻanae families as Kānehūnāmoku, the hidden land of Kāne. In learning from those families, talking to other Waiʻanae residents and visiting that area, Dawn and Jan have responded to this unique place in artworks presented in this exhibition.

As the rest of the island slowly becomes urbanized, this exhibit advocates for the need to protect all of Kānehūnāmoku.

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