Kiʻi pōhaku: what the stone remembers
What Hawaiʻi's petroglyphs at Puʻuloa teach about patience, place and making by hand.
Journal
Notes from a fine art studio on the lava
How the work is made, what the fire does, and what it's like to make fine art on a lava field in Kaʻū.
How gas firing works
How a gas kiln fires pottery, why potters still choose gas over electric, and what the flame does to clay and glaze. From a Big Island ceramic studio.
What is reduction firing?
Reduction firing explained by a Hawaiʻi Island potter: how starving a gas kiln of oxygen changes glaze color, and why reduction-fired pottery is one of a kind.
Making ceramics in the shadow of Kīlauea
What it means to make Hawaiian ceramics on a lava lot in Kaʻū, between Mauna Loa and Kīlauea, and how the volcanic landscape shapes the work.