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Rashani Réa · Artist, writer, land steward

Art that listens.
A land that holds.

From layered collages to books of poems, from the work of grieving to the living sanctuary of Kipukamaluhia—Rashani's life moves between making, listening, and tending.

Books · Art · Retreats · Land stewardshipKaʻū, Hawaiʻi
Rashani's collage pairing botanical forms with words by Joanna Macy
Hale Kai, a shelter amid the trees at Kipukamaluhia Sanctuary
COLLAGE / RASHANI RÉALAND / KIPUKAMALUHIA
COLLAGE ART✳BOOKS & JOURNALS✳GRIEF & GRACE✳KIPUKAMALUHIA✳CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE

An ongoing conversation in image and word

More than
a single book.

Rashani's bibliography includes her own writing, art with the words of other poets and teachers, and journals designed to be lived with. These are four different entrances into her work.

The curved stone-edged gardens at Kipukamaluhia Sanctuary
03 / THE LIVING LAND

A sanctuary
is something
you tend.

Since 2002, Rashani has stewarded Kipukamaluhia in the Kaʻū district of Hawaiʻi Island. The land is a place of shared work, individual and group retreat, biodiversity, and direct connection with the earth.

Discover Kipukamaluhia
SIXTEEN ACRES · KAʻŪ, HAWAIʻI

In dialogue with a friend and teacher

An
inextinguishable
flame.

Rashani's relationship with Joanna Macy is part of her artistic and contemplative story. In a journal dedicated to Macy and the Great Turning, her collages accompany words and reflections on care for the world.

The project holds an especially personal place in her wider archive of tributes to the people who helped shape her work.

Explore the journal
Full wraparound artwork for Joanna Macy: An Inextinguishable Flame, showing Joanna Macy's portrait and moonlit imageryTHE PUBLISHED JOURNAL / FRONT AND BACK ARTWORK

Not only books. Not only art.

Ways of
being together.

Rashani's offerings connect attention, inquiry and companionship—both on the land and through facilitated online gatherings.

Portrait of Rashani Réa from her official biography

06 / RASHANI'S STORY

Art, activism
& a pathless life.

Rashani began writing poetry and studying brush painting at eight. Her path has included social and ecological activism, music, contemplative practice, creative collaborations, and decades of bringing people together.

Her sanctuary and her artwork aren't separate occupations; both reflect a sustained relationship with beauty, impermanence and the world around her.

Meet Rashani