Hamakua Cane Road Big Island Ceramic Art Tile

The windward coast of the Big Island, north of Hilo. The road winds in and out of fern-walled gulches over one-lane bridges, the sea always somewhere below. The sugar mills closed in 1994. The cane is gone but the road remembers, in the plantation towns still arranged around where the mills stood, in the eucalyptus and African tulip that grew up in the old fields. The rain falls almost every day. Honoka'a, Laupāhoehoe, Pepe'ekeo — the towns hold the names. The road keeps going.

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