Red Sand Beach Maui Ceramic Art Tile

A pocket beach below Kaʻuiki Head, on the eastern edge of Maui. The cinder cone keeps eroding into the cove, which keeps the sand a startling iron-red, the same colour that once ran out of the volcano. An offshore reef takes the swell apart before it reaches shore, so the water inside holds an unusual still indigo. The trail down is narrow, crumbling, and unofficial; locals have asked visitors to leave it alone. The Hawaiians named the bay Kaihalulu, the roaring sea, for what comes through when the reef gives up a wave.

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