Tunnels Beach Kauai Ceramic Art Tile

The end of the road on Kauai's north shore, where Kuhio Highway runs out near Hāʻena and the reef starts about a hundred yards offshore. The water reads a particular turquoise, shallow over the coral, deeper where the reef breaks open into the lava tubes the place is named for. From May through September the surface stays glass and the snorkelers come. The rest of the year the north swell takes over and the beach is for walking. Mt. Makana rises behind it, the spire from the old South Pacific film. Most days nobody on the sand says much.

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