Fariba Bogzaran
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Black Canvas
 
Pele’s hair poisoned
blue turns black 
vomiting every morning.
 
Coral and fish turn brown
birds, butterflies and bees
skip the land in disgust.
 
We became
steward of a sick land.
 
Eight years passed,
with our bare hands into the land
venomous centipede blessings
creation overcomes destruction.
 
Today, fruit trees and heliconias,
Agraulis vanillae and chickens
Amakihi and geckos
bees, turkeys and worms-
the land sings a new song.

Listening to whale's dream,
creation paints on black canvas.

Fariba Bogzaran, 2011©
 
 
 
Painting the Black Canvas. The first flowers and fruits of the land. Photography by Fariba Bogzaran, 2009©
Pele's Abundance, 2009©
First Lei of the Land, 2010©

Black Canvas is part of a series of installation art works (began in 2001) with the theme of Creation vs Destruction.
Art and Sustainability Project


Ho'okena Moe (Dreaming the Source)
Dream Creation Farm is a sustainable land-based art project, in collaboration with Daniel Deslauriers, 2003-2011, Big Island of Hawaii.