Aloha Tower Oahu Ceramic Art Tile

Ten stories of cream-coloured concrete at the entrance to Honolulu Harbor, with the word ALOHA spelled across all four sides and a four-faced clock that has kept the harbour's time since 1926. For forty years it was the tallest building in Hawaii. Steamships used to tie up at Pier 9 and passengers heard the bells before they saw the city. Cruise ships still come alongside. The observation deck, ten floors up, looks across Sand Island, the green wall of the Koʻolau range, and the runway that quietly replaced the harbour as the door to the islands.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.