Tantalus Lookout Oahu Ceramic Art Tile

A turn-out on Round Top Drive, above Honolulu, where the rainforest opens and the whole south coast of Oʻahu lays out below. Diamond Head sits to the east, Pearl Harbor to the west, Waikiki between. Punahou School students renamed the peak Tantalus in the late nineteenth century, after Greek myth; the older name, Puʻu ʻUalakaʻa, means rolling sweet potato hill. People come up the loop road in the late afternoon, watch the sun cross behind the Waiʻanae Range, and stay through the slow hour when the lights below come on one street at a time. The gate closes at dusk.

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