Kailua Beach Oahu Ceramic Art Tile

A two-and-a-half-mile crescent of fine white sand on the windward side of Oahu, the kind of pale that comes from broken coral rather than basalt. The trade wind moves across the bay most days. Two small green islets, the Mokulua, sit a half-mile offshore on a reef that keeps the water shallow and the colour even. Locals call them the Mokes. The town of Kailua sits a quarter-mile back from the sand. No tour buses come down to the beach anymore. The light is the same Pacific light that paints the leeward side of every island in this chain, only here it's met by the wind.

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