The observatories as art

[Rob Tucker]

This is from my point of view, I find the Maunakea observatories, TMT included, to be spectacularly beautiful and high art. I mean this both in their individual form and design and in the context of their location on the mountain top and in their intention.

For my purposes in life I have long considered a simple definition of art itself as anything executed to an advanced degree. Art can be found in painting, dance, architecture, music, language, performance, science and any human endeavor.

So I suggest that an inked pattern on tapa, the shape of a Corvette, the lines of a canoe, the moai of Rapa Nui (which the observatories resemble) and the magnificent observatories all share something in common which should be appreciated and encouraged. They are all the manifestations of the creative spirit of man.

The observatories of Maunakea are all high art in my eyes in situ, in intention, in fact, in purpose and in execution.

Aloha,