If you want to know why the title of this painting is Kaua’i, here is the story.
We spent Christmas 2018 on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i. One of the things we noticed immediately was how many feral chickens and roosters there were everywhere on that island. Where do they all come from and why aren’t there any on the other islands? Here is a post with a picture of chickens in it.
The hurricanes Iwa in 1982, and then Iniki in 1992, destroyed many domestic chicken coops. This released the chickens into the jungles. The domesticated birds then mated with the wild red junglefowl that was brought to the islands by the Polynesians hundreds of years ago.
The current feral chickens have no natural predator, so they are procreating at a prodigious rate.
There is no way that you can travel to Kaua’i and not notice the ubiquitous chickens and roosters. There is no way you can spend a night on Kaua’i and not be woken up at 4:30am by a rooster outside your window. They are everywhere.
Kaua’i is roosters, and roosters are Kaua’i.
This painting is very festive–it could be your holiday card: “Happy Kaua’i Holidays!” Love your choice of pointillist style. But why did you choose those brush strokes? Is this a self-portrait?
Brush strokes are an attempt at breaking my style. I did three paintings in this style now, Kaua’i, Giraffe and ‘Tis the Season (see art.norberthaupt.com). I have another one titled “Leopard” in the making, but stuck with that one.
I don’t understand the self-portrait question? No, I am not a rooster….
Ha-ha: I meant “happy, proud, at some kind of peak in your life.” This picture is such a nice holiday image, especially for someone like me in the snow and gray clouds of mid-Michigan.
Ah, I am the rooster.
I am working on a painting of the archaeopteryx right now…..