POIPU — What’s not to love? The question is posed at the end of A. Kimberlin Blackburn’s thoughts on Roots, a one-person exhibit which opened Saturday at the galerie 103 during the monthly Art Walk at The Shops at Kukuiula.
POIPU — What’s not to love?
The question is posed at the end of A. Kimberlin Blackburn’s thoughts on Roots, a one-person exhibit which opened Saturday at the galerie 103 during the monthly Art Walk at The Shops at Kukuiula.
At the core of the display is a tangelo tree, a victim of downsizing the farm.
“Moving into the future with full-time farming days more and more behind us, this particular tree took on new meaning as it stood stripped bare of its branches, fruit and leaves, along in the field,” Blackburn wrote about the muse behind her piece.
The death of the tree sparks life into things passed — old parts from Kimberlin’s father-in-law’s pineapple truck, irrigation systems and tools.
“I found old family mementos; heirloom tools that had been used hard and kept as the amazing objects they are,” Kimberlin said. “Love was hidden and found in the inanimate objects they left behind with their deaths.”
The dictionary is real old, she said. On the walls are recipes from a family cookbook.
“On my parent’s fireplace brick wall was a favored root ball my mom thought was so aesthetically pleasing,” she said. “As I treasure the memories, these things hold some of their essence.”
Blackburn said every day something passes, a saw handle getting broken while moving from the farm to Poipu.
Blackburn, greeting throngs of people who flowed through the galerie 103 Saturday night, said the exhibit opened on “daddy’s birthday,” and runs through Dec. 7 — Pearl Harbor Day.
Info: www.akimberlinblackburn.com
