View of Maitavie Bay, Tahiti; painting by William Hodges (1776)
…Although the details of Tupaia’s knowledge may be lost to history, Pacific people continue to voyage in his wake. To mark the 250-year anniversary of Tupaia’s voyage, in 2019 Galenon and Teipoarii navigated the ship by the moon and stars from Tahiti to Aotearoa. They are part of a Pacific-wide movement of modern wayfinders who hope to restore inter-island networks disrupted by colonization and to build regional unity around shared challenges like climate change.
Like Tupaia, they exchanged oral traditions with people they met along the voyage. ‘Our ancestors would navigate to maintain relationships,’ says Galenon. ‘The canoe was the link.’
Above painting is Tahiti.
knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/reading-pacific-navigators-mysterious-map
Also, Polynesian Navigation on Wiki: wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation
From Dan Dwyer
From David Shipway, a builder on Cortez Island, BC, Canada, regarding his catboat; his home and workshop are featured in Builders of the Pacific Coast.
It’s a fiberglass hull, modeled on a William Garden design, that has made my last 10 summers the best in my life! But as I was warned, it has definitely taken my time and attention away from maintaining some buildings here during the summer when it’s dry. I have quite a bit of roofing to do — in my 70’s now, but I’ll find some young bucks to help me.
The Humpback whale in the background of that photo is feeding on small fish that live under the aquaculture floats. These are passive shellfish enterprises, that unlike the salmon farms nearby, do not cause problems, and in fact are like floating artificial reefs, which increase the structural habitat biodiversity of this archipelago significantly, for birds, salmon and whales. Note the Bald Eagle, a white speck high above in the trees.
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Jenner last month, on my way up the coast to Louie’s. Thousands of gulls. They weren’t feeding, maybe in for the coming storm?
Founded in Oakland in 1997, Wowhaus is the artist duo of Scott Constable and Ene Osteraas-Constable. We make site-specific/site-responsive, community-engaged public art in cities across the USA. We work in a wide range of media and contexts, so our work takes many forms, but is best known for being highly crafted, interactive, environmentally astute, conceptually rigorous, and fantastically innovative in form.
We were recently commissioned by the Washington State Arts Commission to realize a project at a new public middle school complex in Silverdale, WA. We were invited by the school to choose a site within the new complex and its and propose and create a new site-specific artwork. Wanting to meaningfully impact the daily experience of teachers, staff and students, and also complement the beautiful architecture for the community, we decided to create a suspended sculpture within the main entry commons. The sculpture would daily greet people as they entered the building, but would also be visible from outside the school for the greater community who frequent the campus, which doubles as a neighborhood park.
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Deer’s ears are like radar antennas, they track your every move.
Listening to Johnny Winter “Roots” CD on way home from beach this morning. This is such a good album! Not only superb guitar, but his voice is so good:
Unfortunately, the colors are due to the fires in Northern California.
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Two videos of bees gathering pollen from opium poppy + photo of pollen “saddlebag” on bee’s leg in upper right; bees gather pollen and nectar in pellets on their legs for transport back to hives.
I had five bee colonies in ’70s, ’80s, and they are utterly fascinating; the species has been around for 25 million years.
Don’t get me started talking about the brilliance of their societies!
Wood engraving, Flammarion, 1898
-Ned Riley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lughnasadh
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California native, Leopard Lily (Lilium pardalinum). Lesley bought one at Mostly Natives Nursery and it’s thriving. Most commonly found in the Sierras, in wet places up to 6000 feet.
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Pipevine swallowtail caterpillar, becomes chrysalis (2nd photo); we’re watching to see it emerge as butterfly.
