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I Do. Well I Don't.
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Contemporary item# 713254
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"Hawai'i knows that Mainland franchises erode the foundations of its uniqueness. Struck with a kind of psychic paralysis, Hawai'i responds with the hugely popular window sticker: "Ainokea, I do what I like." With the case all but closed, how can art respond to such ambivalence? Kirsten Rae Simonsen and Scott Groeniger's "I Do. Well I Don't" answers directly. With a globally spoken style of "visual pidgin" they create an island from abstracted personal, technical and commercial elements that allude to street and resource location maps, social networks and a compelling link/tension between childhood and adult modes of personal transportation. Their rich range of intentional smudges, tints, smears and aborted erasures grounds the psychology of the piece: These are subconscious Hawai'i's repressed questions of sustainability, energy and land, which are constantly subjected to threats and promises of (re)development." - David A.M. Goldberg, Honolulu Advertiser 2007.11.4; Kirsten Rae Simonsen, Honolulu artist and lecturer at the University of Hawaii, and Honolulu artist Scott Groeniger; mixed media on paper, 12 by 19 inches; 2007.
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