Moananuiakea by Melissa Chimera

Oil, mixed-media, & silk stitched serigraph on linen and kozo paper

36" h x 50" w

The numbers across the canvas reference the latitudes and longitudes of all Pacific island nations pulled together across the vast Pacific Ocean, called Moananuiakea, or the blue continent. The artist invites the viewer to imagine an alternate cartography that transcends political and geographic distinctions between people of the canoe in the Pacific.