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Keanae Peninsula Maui Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
A flat black peninsula reaching into the Pacific on Maui's windward side, halfway down the Hana Highway. Lava came down off Haleakala and stopped here, then over generations Hawaiian families carried baskets of soil onto the rock to grow taro. The lo'i are still there, still worked. On the seaward edge a small church of coral and lava rock has stood since the 1860s. It was the only building left in the village after the 1946 tsunami. The surf hits the black rock hard enough that you can hear it from the road.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.