Adella Lei Buss
Adella Lei Buss is a local artist, born in Honolulu. She graduated from UH Manoa with
an MFA. She teaches drawing at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and art appreciation at
Kapi'olani Community College. Her photoetchings are in the collections of the Honolulu
Academy of Arts and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and in private
collections. Currently she is learning to engrave on copper.
Artist's Statement
Someone with a clear and empty heart mirrors images of the Invisible. He becomes
intuitive and certain of our inmost thought, because 'the faithful are a mirror for
the faithful'
-- Rumi
And I bow to God in gratitude,
And I find the moon is also busy
Doing the same.
I bow to God in great happiness,
And I learn from where the suns
And the children
And my heart all borrow their light.
-- Hafiz
Oh! to have a clear and empty heart,
Maybe art is just the vehicle.