What will the public encounter with? OFF THE GRID DESERT ISLAND We want to begin again. You all want to begin again? Reset your former way of life. Of living on this Island. The Breuer Building as Desert Island Brutalist Island We want to desert here and Escape to next Island. We want to begin again. You want to begin again? Artist? How we move around each other? Islands? îles?

#: Cuban Banana. Self-run gym (desert gym). Map of lava flow (A town was devoured in the 90s.). A man who was building the entire house for his family.

Affordable land. A family hung the two clocks in their house. Freshly hardened lava ground. Cuts of fresh vegetables were offered in return for other food. Hala leaves on the concrete floor. Hala leaves for sale which prepared to use.

Weather report. Are you going with me? (Pat Metheny) Guerilla Rain There were naturalists. We met a woman who ate her own placenta with her husband, and showed us a photo. Escaping from LA > Escaping from Honolulu > Escaped to Puna > and then escape to where? Naturalists and traditionalists are different. There were a group of people who wants to rebuild the value of native culture. Some dance group only accepts students who are Hawaiian descent. Naturalists on the other hand. They are different. They are more about a way of living. “Artist” and “Performance” are not uncommon words among naturalists. But those words has very different definition from the one we use in New York.

#: The man takes shit in the garden. Avocado grows near by. Big vegetable. The man was proud how it goes in his life. As if it is the only way of living. Transfer stations on the island for garbage. House was for sale $180,000. Previous owner kept temporarily, and then they got too old to come back to the island and resell. Developing new lot for another vacation house. Turtles sunbathing. 15-feet restriction. Where there is usually aerial silk workshop became Farmer’s market other day. “Womyn” only event (the photo was provided by my friend.) Suzanne and the pacific She imagines island freely. That became the island. Island = Trick Island = reset in a life Rejecting Island. Anti-hospitalizing Island. Not full-filling your reset fantasy. No no off-grid fantasy. It is not some condition that hospitalizes you. Not about aloha spirits.

#: The tie-dye shirts discolored so much. It needs more PH increaser treatment. Circularly cut pineapple. Two men staring at tourists (us). Construction of new market huts. That anteater came from outside Hawaii, of course. Emergency water buckets. Some locals on this island live with food stamps. Another locals organize eco-tour for tourists.