Hosmer Grove Maui Ceramic Art Tile

An experimental forest from 1910, planted by the territory's first forester to see what could grow this high on a tropical volcano. Pines and cedars from California, sugi from Japan, eucalyptus from Australia, deodar from the Himalayas. About twenty species survived. They are now seventy feet tall, on a Hawaiian mountain, at six thousand eight hundred feet. Native honeycreepers feed along the half-mile loop, the scarlet ʻiʻiwi and the crimson ʻapapane working the ʻōhiʻa lehua. People come for the silence and the cool air. Most leave the campground before dawn for the summit and the sunrise. The grove keeps its quiet either way.

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