Basalt Stone

L x W x H: 98' x 78" x 92" (30 M x 198 cm x 234 cm)

Gradually rising from beneath ground level, this mound of rock appears to ascend from the earth and quietly honor the stones, water, soil, plants, animals, and people who have passed through its parent landscape over millennia. While its form is reminiscent of the hill which precedes it, it also commemorates the specific location in which two ancient water pathways once descended from Kohala mountain and converged.

The monument’s body is composed of countless stones collected from two different volcanoes on Hawai’i Island. Those from Hualālai are approximately 2000 years old, while those from Kohala were formed closer to 900,000 yrs ago and gathered from the site itself, literal embodiments of the greater landscape. In addition to its material structure, the architectural forms which compose it are both universally significant, and intimately specific to the Kohala region.

With its relationship to time’s passage, the sculpture bridges the seemingly disparate histories of the artist, the land, and the property’s new steward, unifying and carrying them into the future.