Monday, December 10, 2012

Pu'uhonua o Honaunau

"PLACE OF REFUGE" #10
PLACE OF REFUGE  #11

 I love the name of this place... I love the rustling palms that surround and hold me in their soft shadowy embrace...I love the massive stone walls that quietly hold a thousand more stories in their cool stillness, and the tidal  pools in black lava where the ocean comes to rest.  I love it's gentleness... its wildness...its forgiveness. I  look toward the blue mauka mountain haze. I lay my palm against stone... listening, feeling for a Hawaiian heartbeat generations old.

Both paintings were done on location, in oils, in "plein air".

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