HPU Gallery Hosting Indigo Art

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Darius Homayounpour calls his current gallery show at Hawaii Pacific University “Blue Feet: Tales from the Life of an Indigo Dyer” because “I am a local boy and work in slippers, (and) my feet are frequently blue with drippings from the dye vat.”

The exhibit opened July 24 and will remain up through Sept. 16. Many of the pieces involve pojagi a patchwork tradition dating back to the Korean Jeoson Dynasty (13921910). Pojagi were used as wrapping cloths for covering, storing or carrying objects ranging in size and importance.

According to Homayounpou, “the minimalism of line, shape and color of this textile tradition have become a form of meditation at a time when the world has seemingly gone crazy. These pojagi pieces are meditations on disintegration that help put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

“The real work of this exhibition has been a reintigration of fractured times and disparate cultures.”

The HPU Art Gallery is located on the Hawaii Loa campus at 45-045 Kamehameha Hwy. in Kaneohe. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Sunday. Admission is free. For more information, call 544-0228.