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Sue Swerdlow
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Talking with Sue Swerdlow is like moving inside her art and tasting its bold vivaciousness. She gestures, cries, paces from painting to painting to emphasize a color or technique, and then, in one abrupt movement, throws herself at you and asks pointedly: "Do you get it? You get what I mean? My art is alive!"
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Bountiful Bamboo
 On the verdant slopes of Hölualoa, just above Kailua-Kona on the Island of Hawai‘i, amid sprawling monkey pod trees and fragrant coffee orchards, fashion designer Virginia Small’s soon-to-be-finished home quietly heralds a change in western building methods. With its sea-grass ceiling and ample 912—square foot covered länai, the breezy 2,064-square-foot structure mirrors Hawai‘i’s pragmatic sugar plantation style, and so could hardly be more apt. But Small’s abode also bears witness to a growing demand for environmentally-friendly construction materials. From structural poles to grand staircase, panels, and walls, it is built almost entirely with one of the world’s most sustainable resources, bamboo.
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