A limited-edition screen-printed T-shirt inspired by 1980s surf graphics and souvenir culture, created as part of Revisiting Kealakekua Bay, Reworking the Captain Cook Monument.
WE ATE ’UM uses the familiar language of branding, humor, and commemorative merchandise to examine how historical stories are simplified, repeated, and circulated through popular culture. The phrase references a persistent myth surrounding the death of Captain James Cook, bringing historical record, cultural memory, and inherited stories into tension.
Sally Lundburg and Keith Tallett are Hawaiʻi Island–based artists whose collaborative practice brings together mixed media, cultural research, image-making, and language. Their work often considers how histories are remembered, circulated, and transformed through objects, images, words, popular culture, and everyday experience, sometimes using humor and irony to unsettle familiar narratives.
Lundburg is a mixed-media artist and visual storyteller whose independent work explores patterns of movement, memory, environmental change, and place through painting, collage, photography, sculpture, installation, and moving image. Her work has been presented at the Honolulu Biennial (now Hawaiʻi Triennial), Honolulu Museum of Art, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, and Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco.
Tallett is a mixed-media artist, second-generation surfboard shaper, and practitioner whose work brings cultural knowledge and practices into dialogue with contemporary art. His practice spans painting, sculpture, wood and stone carving, surfcraft, and installation. He has exhibited nationally, including at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Capitol Modern, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Franklin Parrasch Gallery, and is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Sculptor and Painter Grant.
Together, Lundburg and Tallett collaborate through Manukai, a shared creative practice rooted in Hawaiʻi Island. Their exhibition Revisiting Kealakekua Bay, Reworking the Captain Cook Monument (2026) examines historical memory, commemoration, colonial narratives, and souvenir culture through collaborative works that move between sculpture, installation, food, printed matter, and wearable objects.