Nu’a Bon (b 1954, Honolulu, lives in Santa Fe) is a Paris-trained abstract painter educated at the University of Hawai'i, Columbia University, and The New School for Social Research. During sabbaticals as an arts professor in China, Bon spent years studying with tribal plant medicine healers in the Andes and the Amazon Basin, and with the San and Zulu peoples of Africa. Within the context of a deeply polarized society, Bon was commissioned a decade ago to paint at remote sites of human conflict and natural disasters across North America. His principal project: ícaro: prayer paintings reflects the South American indigenous colloquialism and its intentions for magic song or medicine song.