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Pueo Owl Maui Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
The Hawaiian short-eared owl, found only here. Pueo flies by day across the upcountry pastures of Maui, low and slow above the grass, then lifts again. In Hawaiian families pueo is an aumakua, an ancestral guardian, and stories of a pueo appearing at the right moment are still told around kitchen tables. The bird and the meaning travel together. On the slopes above Kula at the long edge of afternoon, it can be only a brown shape on a fencepost. Or yellow eyes, returned.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.