Governor Josh Green, M.D.

Photo courtesy: DAGS.

You’ll be greeted with a new, big burst of color if you park in the basement of the Kalanimoku Building, which serves as the headquarters for the Departments of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) and Land and Natural Resources.

Director and Comptroller Keith Regan invited the public to help paint the 100-yard-long wall, which had been white for decades, since the building was built in the 1970s. Forty community volunteers spent a Saturday in November beautifying the space.

Central Services Division Administrator James Kurata says the idea came to him when it was time to clean the walls; “it was an opportunity to brighten up the environment for the visitors and the employees,” he explains.

He enlisted the help of Solomon Enos, the Artist-In-Residence for DAGS’ attached agency State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Enos came up with an abstract concept of triangles that represent a fishing net, because “nets are used to carry, nets are used to connect and network and all of those different kinds of connotations are poetic expressions of the work that happens in this building,” describes Enos.

The rainbow of hues on the walls represents the many colors seen in our islands.