Piero Resta, Villa Tamarinda Parking Lot, Kaupo, Maui

Piero is combining all the arts.

The name of this project is "76 Days, Visions and Revolutions".
There are 13 artists here today working, tonight and tomorrow, we will laugh and feast.

Piero's linking logo.

Day 3 ended in rain, How was I to know this was the last day of dried grass for the winter. I should have called it finished.

Days 4, 5 & 6 the second session one month later.
11-Sat18-10 Something incredible happened on the way to Kaupo. It was a light thing. I left at 4:30PM. About 6:45 it was getting dark and I saw a commotion up ahead. Cars were stopped at the Mona Loa gulch. A flash flood had happened and cars couldn't get across the stream. I had been in this situation before. Rain in the mountains causes this to happen even if it's not raining here in the flatland. A few years ago I was leaving a wedding party from the Aloha Church, half of them made it and half of us were stranded for the night, I felt sorry for the one's with no place to sleep.

We sat and did nothing and the cars were piling up. Somebody had to walk across and test for depth. Along came a Hawaiian guy, sees the problem, walks in the stream, picks up a 50 pound rock, holds it over his head and tosses it to the side. Saved! I was the first to drive across because my van has big tires. No problem. Slow and easy, easy is the key word. I cross and a flow of cars followed behind me. Now it was dark and this is what I want to tell you about. Near Kaupo there is a nice stretch of paved road. In front of me there was the left half the road in a puddle the right half dry. The moon was full. The puddle side had the moon's sky reflection which made the water a bright cobalt blue color. The dry side was lit by my headlights, a bright light yellow-orange color. The colors were opposite and so very strong in contrast. If it were photographed in black and white they would have probably been the same color gray. The values were the same.

I approached what I was seeing and the drive continued. 15 minutes later at 10 miles per hour I was at Piero's gate and pulled into my level parking place. The grass was tall and GREEN. When I started this painting everything was dead grass yellow. Should I change it to the new green? I don't think so. We had supper, Italians are good cooks, watched a DVD movie, I had brought two of them, and crashed for the night.

It's the next morning now and I'm floored by the color change. I'll survive.. Maybe even add some long grass strokes, last month it was all cut and manicured, this week the green grass is almost nee high and the manicured yellow grass is gone.
That's the life of a location artist for you.

Finished, It's yellow grass again. 11-20-10, now the three primary colors show up like they were supposed too.