Artist examines fragile habitats in EHCC exhibition

Artist Bruna Stude is moved to create her art by the consequences of human action on the environment.

Her exhibition, “The Time that Remains,” observes the drastic environmental changes and loss of endemic species that afflict Hawaii and the world.

The exhibit is on view now through May 26 at the East Hawaii Cultural Center in downtown Hilo.

Stude’s large-scale installations document the fragility and vulnerability of threatened habitats. Her work integrates her own photographs, found images she alters, and Anna Atkins-inspired plant photograms.

Stude, who currently lives on Kauai, was born in Croatia in 1958 and grew up on the Dalmatian Coast. Most of her career was spent documenting marine life. She became a self-taught artist later in life.

She creates her work in an indoor-outdoor wilderness space surrounding her home, a process that brings nature into her darkroom.

She rinses her developed images in the rain, allowing nature to become part of the creative process.

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