16" x 20" x 20"

I use copper, a transformative material, to record the form of stone from Kahaluʻu, the place I call home. Once at the heart of the Koʻolau shield volcano, a portion slid into the sea in the Nuʻuanu landslide, shaping the Koʻolau mountains and Kāneʻohe Bay. Born of Pele’s fire, this stone carries the stories of land, human, and nonhuman. It endures as a nonhuman entity, speaking for the ʻāina. Stones in Hawaiian culture are storied beings. I turn to copper—sacred in Mexica culture—shaped through my modern martillado process. Hammered, bound and repaired, it reconnects me to ancestors I have been separated from, and grounds me in Hawaiʻi, a place I love.