TSA
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TSA
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
More sketches on the Tiki souvenirs for the projects that Tiki Shark & KC HAWAII are creating…
I'm designing two-sided Tikis that you can ask a question and then "spin" to get an old "Eight Ball" take on what kind of day you'll have … or,
in this case, what response the "tiki gods" are going to favor you with if you so ask them what kind of day you are gonna have.
These tiki will appear in the souvenir shops in Hawaii along with all the tikis that KC HAWAII already makes for such shops.
some of these sketches are pretty rough and just partial ideas.
I noticed the souvenir Tikis in a lot of the stores were duplicates of REAL tikis found in museums…this I didn't think was very respectful.
This sketch is for a painting…
This is also an idea for a back ground in a painting…
ANYWAYS… Some of souvenir tikis with stickers calling them "good luck" or "Love tiki" were in fact gravely miss labeled, and as far as some museums could tell were used in , perhaps black magic rituals…I thought that "darkly toned kinda' mythological/historical replica object d' Art" wasn't a good thing for kids to be playing with, superstitious or not… it just got history and art-history so completely wrong, it went against my grain as an artist, and a person who enjoys historical Hawaii and also Pop-culture Hawaii.
I proposed to create a line of NEW "Tiki Toys" (based more on Tiki Lounges than historical Kapu Temples) TIKI TOYS that we could call a souvenir "Good luck Tiki" and know we were designing it exactly for that purpose, and only for that. No bad juju, or huge historical mistakes.
Like this "FORTUNE TIKI" - you give it a spin, ( I hope) and the tourist will see if they'll have "Good Fortune" or "Bad Fortune" - except we soften-ed it to be "Pono" (good) or "Lolo" (crazy) fortune.
Don't want to scare ( or bore) the tourists with a lot of historical explanation, ...it's bad for business!
More laters!
[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2015-06-24 05:52 ]
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