Homegrown, 2024 21 minutes 16:9, color, sound

This short artist video offers a portrait in motion of Russell Sunabe, a Japanese Okinawan painter and community educator born in Hakalau, Big Island currently living in Honolulu, Oʻahu. Excerpts of Russell's unpublished writings (from 1989 to 2000) on art, pidgin/local culture and Hawaiʻi "homegrowns" supplement his memories from childhood and current thoughts on maintaining a creative practice in Hawaiʻi today.