Biography: Boz is currently an art history drawing, painting and illustration teacher at Kamehameha Schools Kapālama and a freelance graphic designer, muralist and artist/illustrator. She enjoys travel, painting murals around the island, running and playing with her cat.
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Honolulu Musuem of Contemporary Art Spalding House Shop
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Artist Statement: There is a strange disconnect between mental illness and normalcy – as if there is a stark dividing line between the two: Black and white, us and them, completely separate. I believe this arbitrary classification, ill, healthy, recovering... is very similar to how we catalog our colors: blue, red, green... The visible color spectrum reflects the human experience. An experience where colors cannot be contained as single, definable points. The spectrum is one band of ever shifting, transitioning hues, as are we – our lives and our experiences are continuous and overlapping, yet discreet.
We all exist in a world with other people. We interact daily with a wide range of personalities. It is not possible to limit your experience to “normal.” We are but one piece in the cosmos. No one exists in a vacuum. So instead of pushing past others whose mental or physical health might not reflect exactly our own, we must embrace.
We are made of many parts: our personalities, our bodies, and our world.
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Logo Design: Boz's logo is inspired by Dr. Maya Angelou's famous quote "Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud." Some days you are the rainbow and some days you are the cloud. Same days you are both.
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Family Portrait 2017