Photo: Aubrey Yee
ON THE COVER
Art For Life Aubrey Yee, co-owner of the modern design center Pacific Home, decided shortly after college to get into importing furniture from Indonesia so she could have an excuse to travel extensively. Obviously she’s the type of person with a passion and a plan. The plan has been helping others create smart, colorful home environments to enhance their life experiences; the passion has been snapping photos of the elements and intricacies of nature she encounters along the way. From wide angle to macro, Yee captures abstract close-ups of insects, flowers and plants, as well as wildlife in its natural setting. Her trained eye is able to create a window to the little miracles that occur all around us that so often go unnoticed. “The light in Hawai‘i is clean and sharp. There’s a clarity in the air you don’t get anywhere else,” says Yee, who cheerily agrees that she is nearly consumed by her passion with photography. “There are so many tropical vibrant colors to take advantage of here with the plants and the ocean.” When she’s not behind the lens or on the sales floor, Aubrey makes use of her BA in English from UCLA by putting pen to paper and expressing herself through story. Aubrey’s photography can be seen at her home design store in Honolulu and throughout the pages of GREEN, as well as the alluring words she strikes that pull us into other worlds of vibrant colors, compassionate people and art for life. —Kevin Whitton