Mother by Day, Artist by Night
Kala`e Tangonan: the business of sharing beauty
Tucked between towering cabinets and buckets of paint-dye in her garage-studio, Molokai artist Kala`e Tangonan is home. Standing over an old table, she paints milky wax designs over a blank silk scarf – it is the humble beginnings of what will become a color-drenched masterpiece. The tip of her brush dips into hot wax and then glides freely over the gauzy material, hardening into the free-hand patterns that will appear after the dying process. She peels the scarf from the table and dunks it into a bucket of violet dye – a technique called batik. …
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