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South Point Ka Lae Big Island Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
The southernmost point of the fifty states. The Kaʻū coast at the far end of the Big Island, where early Polynesian settlers left some of the deepest archaeological evidence on the islands. The wind blows hard enough to bend the kiawe trees permanently. They grow leaning north, all of them. There are mooring holes carved into the lava cliffs where fishermen tied their canoes against the Halaea Current, which still runs the same direction it always did. The road in is twelve miles of pasture and turbines, and at the end there is nothing but black rock and open ocean.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.