Linda Kane
Ewa Beach, Hawai‘i

Future’s Past
letters, cigar box, wax
28.5 x 15 x 10 cm
2005

____Selected exhibitions

  • Sacred Icons: A Collective Vision of Symbolic & Ritual Objects, Artisans Center of Virginia, Waynesboro, Virginia, 2005
  • New Work, Patricia Cameron Fine Arts, Seattle, 2005
  • Spirits of the Dead Watching, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, 2004
  • Commitment to Excellence, First Place Award, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, 2004
  • ConTempoRARITIES, The Contemporary Museum at Nieman Marcus, Honolulu, 2004
  • Wahi Pana--Sacred Places--Kaho‘olawe-O‘ahu, Hawai‘i Pacific University, Kane‘ohe, 2003
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan, 2003
  • Artists of Hawai‘i, Alfred Preis Memorial Award, Honolulu Academy of Arts. 1996

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, 1948, Linda Kane received a BFA, 1970, and a MFA, 1988, from the University of Hawai‘i. Her work is in the collections of Persis Corporation, the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, First Hawaiian Bank, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

This old cigar box is a repository of letters written by my relatives while serving in the military during WWI, WWII, and the Vietnam War. Today, a new generation of young servicemen and women continue to write those same letters.