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Kaena Point Oahu Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
The westernmost tip of Oʻahu. Two dirt tracks meet at a basalt point where the road, on either side, finally ends. Pale dunes hold the headland, the wind is constant, and from late autumn through summer Laysan albatrosses return to nest behind a long stainless-steel fence built in 2011 to keep rats and mongoose out. Hawaiian monk seals haul out on the sand below. In old Hawaiian tradition this is leina a ka ʻuhane: the place from which souls leap into the sea. The road runs out. The island doesn't.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.