Maui Tropical Plantation Ceramic Art Tile

A working plantation at the foot of the West Maui Mountains, on the Waikapū side of the central plain. Open since 1984, after the sugarcane years. Forty crops in rows now: coffee, macadamia, avocado, papaya, the things this latitude rewards. An open-air tram makes a forty-minute loop past the lagoon and into the rows. The mountain catches the trade-wind clouds and the field gets watered most mornings without anyone doing anything about it.

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