Garden of the Gods Lanai Ceramic Art Tile

The high red plain at the north end of Lāna'i, scattered with wind-stacked boulders and a soil that turns through orange and amber as the light moves. Polihua Road from Lāna'i City is slow, dusty, four-wheel-drive only, and takes about forty minutes. The Hawaiian name is Keahiakawelo, the fire of Kawelo. The story goes that a kahuna stripped this whole headland for fuel, trying to outlast a rival's fire across the channel on Moloka'i. Wind and time have done the rest. Last light is what the place is for. After the sun goes, almost no one is there.

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