TUTUVI NEWSPRINT

2024

Loose Leaf
8 folded posters, with insert
11 x 15.5 inches (folded)
Edition of 250

Co-published by Tropic Editions and Pu‘uhonua Society.

In the late 1990s, Colleen Kimura and her studio assistant, Jason Teraoka, started creating works on paper together as a byproduct of Tutuvi garment production. Before screen printing designs on bolts of fabric, they would cover the ends of the studio table with pages from the daily newspapers to ensure that any overprinting could be easily cleaned up after the fact. As layers of high-contrast partial prints from different designs accumulated haphazardly on reused newsprint, Colleen and Jason saw an opportunity to transform remnants of their printing process into finished works of art.

Over 25 years later, in March 2024, a selection of these happy studio accidents was the focus of a modest exhibition, TUTUVI NEWSPRINT, at Arts & Letters Nuʻuanu. This loose leaf publication accompanies the framed works, as a way of disseminating and preserving the ephemeral quality of the original prints on newspaper.