"Witness to Time"

Ke'anae" Hana, Maui

Acrylic on canvas 36" x 96" $9600.00 Now $5800.00

According to ancient Hawaiian legend, Kane', the god of fresh water, brought an abundance to the previously arid Ke'anae peninsula , now the sight of Ke'anae Village on the road to Maui's Hana and Kanaloa, god of the sea, surrounded the lava peninsula with the sea's bounty.
"Ke'anae" is my interpretation of that early time.

'Ke'anae'
36"x96" Acrylic on Canvas
Gallery priced at $9600.00
Web Special - $5800.00 shipped USA

Before there was a national refuge designated for Kealia on the northern end of Kihei, the area was known simply as "the mudflats". Large pools formed in the rainy season for a month or two of each year and then dried to small puddles of water surrounded by crusts of sludge and sea weed. In the summer, the stench of decayed fish waffed into Kihei with every hint of a breeze and swarms of flying insects covered the windshields of the cars that traveled the highway.

"The Mud Flats" was sometimes a collection point for discarded cars and ice boxes. And at other times, when our county's funds could afford the pickup, the area appeared pristine except for the tracks of the cars that used it as a shortcut to the back side of Maalaea. "Kealia Mudflats" is that pristine time as I remember it.

'Kealia Mudflats'
Limited Edition remarked Giclee print on Canvas
Signed and Numbered from Edition of Ten
34"x42"
Gallery priced at 1550.00
Web price $875.00 shipped USA

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