Murals

Dynamic SEAs

This mural is dedicated to the workers who fill Seatac’s city boundaries day in and day out. These folks constantly fly under the radar of the city’s more well-known destinations like the Airport or the Hotels that occupy over 40% of the city’s footprint. It also celebrates the beauty and joy of Seatac parks uplifting a narrative that is more than just the airplanes that fly in and out of the region’s biggest port.

Medium: Mural Installation

Joe Goes There

Depicted here are personifications of some well known Fremont and Wallingford locales (silhouettes behind each "person") each varying in age, wisdom, knowledge, and experience. The connecting “dialogue” between them all is the public transit lines - usually reliable, sometimes late, but like any good dialogue, headed towards resolution and able to get you there eventually. The patterns and motifs seen throughout these panels are universally found in many cultures but are specific to the artist’s Tongan heritage from which he draws his greatest inspiration. Commissioned by Seattle Public Utilities in partnership with the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.

Medium: Exterior Latex Paint, Acrylic Markers on Plywood Panels (6ft x 68ft)

haiKU-MAter-saFEKEeping

Auburn, WA like many of its neighboring municipalities, has seen momentous shifts that have shaken communities economically, politically, culturally and will continue to have impact for the foreseeable future. This disruption was a central theme I tried to encapsulate in this mural. I wanted to characterize the scale of what our region continually undergoes (constant change) while highlighting the beauty created when our communities work through the difficulties no matter how monumental the challenges might be. Commissioned by the City of Auburn Community Development Division.

Medium: Mural Painting on both sides of Concrete Wall Underpass (each 20 ft x
90 ft)

In descending order: “Mana Māhū” | “Tangaloa ‘Eitumatupu’a” (Tangaloa the Progenitor) | “Tama Nui te Rā” | “Tipuna Whero” (Cardinal Ancestor)

These individual panels were commissioned by Sound Transit to help cover up construction noise along the Kent/Des Moines and Federal Way Link Extension Stations between October, 2020 and October, 2021. Each of them depict powerful deities from Pacific (specifically Polynesian) lore embodying the spirit of Pasifika people in the Pacific NW.

Medium: Acrylic on unstretched 5ft x 10ft
canvas panels