This commission is an entrance feature for both the new Medical School and adjacent Kakaako Waterfront Park. Its forms are derived from images of taro plants, for centuries at the center of Hawaiian life and mythology, providing sustenance both physically and spiritually. The composition of stem-like poles and enormous abstract leaves undulates around two sides of the school, enveloping the landscape, and re-scaling the architecture. Laminated glass details change color from different angles and cast lacy, moving images on the building and walkways. Students and visitors pass under and through "...a garden of the mind, a landscape of botanical memories, wildly out of scale, mingling imagery of leaves, hearts, veins in a vast organic world---strange, comforting, protecting."

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Commissioned by State of Hawai'i, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

Title: "Dream Leaves"
Installed: March 2005.
Dimensions: 72' x 143' x 31'.
Materials: Stainless steel, laminated
  dichroic glass, concrete, flagstone.

Project Manager and Construction  Drawings: Oanh Tran.
Project Administrator: Arleen  Daugherty.
Structural Engineering: Grant Davis,  KPFF.
Lighting Design: C.E. Marquardt.
Art Commission Project Manager:  Jonathan Johnson.
Architect: Hawaii Architects,  Honolulu, HI
Steel Fabrication: Albina Pipe.
Glass Fabrication: Haefker Studio,
Portland, OR
Glass Laminating, Sandblasting:  Glass Strategies
Photography: Ed Carpenter, Andrea  Brizzi