Waimanu Aerial Big Island Ceramic Art Tile

A nine-mile walk in. The Muliwai Trail drops off the Waipiʻo lookout, crosses the stream, climbs the Z-switchbacks, traces the ridge across thirteen gulches, then falls back down to a black sand beach where Waimanu Stream meets the ocean. The walls rise two thousand feet on three sides. Nobody has lived here since the 1946 tsunami took the village. From above, the shape resolves into a green amphitheater closing around the quiet it kept, framed by water on the only open side.

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