For two summers, Feldstein and Biggins worked together on art programs for Bosnian refugee children in Croatia. Their artistic connection is strong even though they approach it from different viewpoints. Through her colorful abstract-expressionistic paintings, Feldstein seeks to unearth her inner world to experience revelations, while Biggins chooses to photograph the rich colors and shapes of the outside world that reflect who she is and how she experiences the world around her.

Feldstein's series of four abstract oil-on-canvas paintings are bright and not overcooked. Her darker "Higher Mathematics" mixed-media diptych on black paper exemplifies the predicament of humans and numbers. In it, a simply drawn reclining nude is marked with numbers that extend beyond the perimeter of the body. She has also included a series of 10 small three-dimensional collage works made from found objects.

For Biggins, who grew up playing in her mother's studio, photographing architectural landscapes gives her a sense of tranquility. Amidst the chaos of downtown Honolulu, "Iwilei Road" and "Merchant Street" are more like abstract paintings than photographs. The electric blue windows in both pieces add a surreal sky-like element to the established building structures snapped from angles that exclude people.

Alshaa Rayne likes to work with abandoned objects.

Her sculptures such as "Multiplying Like Rats" are made with abandoned found objects and testify to her amazing sense of humor. Her vibrantly colored acrylic painting "How I Plan To Become A Saint" and her series of four black-and-white acrylic and crayon on paper works, "Tools for Delaying," "Tools for Apologizing," "Tools for Avoiding" and "Tools for Bungling," communicate her insightful and healthy outlook on life.

"My son has always been the artist in the family," writes Rayne.

Schalekamp's work tends to be less vibrant but not less energetic. Beautiful organic forms emerge out of a deep green abyss in "Oasis" and "Thoro." "Sleep" is an absolutely exquisite small figurative graphite on paper drawing.

"At the core, which comes evident through our artwork," writes Schalekamp, "is spirituality in the Webster's sense, connectedness to everything."

Dagmar Kau and Peter Newkirk work together with clay, a medium they both discovered while studying at Windward Community College. This exhibit shows a total of 22 works created by them, as well as watercolor paintings by Kau of botanical and seascape themes. Kau's blue-green female figure "Not From This Planet" just as easily could have come from a historical display in some museum as from her own kiln.

The exhibit contains the camera and drawing works of Jane Johnson and Robert Mertens. The art on display was done while they were on an award sabbatical in central Italy researching the camera lucida — a 19th-century lens-based drawing instrument that is thought to be the missing link between the camera obscura of the Renaissance and the modern camera.

This work deserves an exhibit of its own. Paintings, digital transparencies that show the camera lucida in the piazza, as well as their elegant "Snap Shot" portrait tiles, give us a glimpse of their time spent together along with a sweet sense of exploration.

Linda and John Oszajca work together to combine art, computer training and architectural graphics. Photographs show John's environmental graphic design for a large local company. Linda's sculptural paintings literally come off the wall. "Evan" is a fun cut-out, life-sized painting of a youth leaning against the wall — complete with jeans and sneakers.

"As we have the same basic training from the same college, we understand each other's strengths and weaknesses," writes John in his artist's statement, "and can contribute in all important criticisms and aesthetic decisions. The best of both worlds."

For printmaker Laura Ruby and writer Tony Quagliano, the visual and verbal unite. Their mixed-media print "On The Ambulance Run" combines abstracted rays of siren beams with Quagliano's poem. "On the ambulance run/the night/never blackens and the brackish air stings the mind alert."