Hanapepe Swinging Bridge Kauai Ceramic Art Tile

A wooden plank footbridge across the Hanapepe River on the west side of Kauai, where the highway sweeps past above and the old town keeps its own slower hours. Built early in the last century so taro farmers could cross to their patches; taken apart by Hurricane Iniki in 1992 and put back by the people who lived there. It still sways a little under footfall. Hanapepe means crushed bay. The town has the kind of stillness that small Friday-night gallery towns get right when no one is trying.

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