48 × 32 × 1.3 in
Hale Aliʻi takes the royal court of Hawaii as its subject: the strength of a king paired with the strength of a queen, with the smaller triangles around them as the rest of the court. It is worked in koa recovered on the Big Island, with the rarest curl reserved for the royal figures. A tight, sharp curl forms the king; white sapwood in a broad, regal curl forms the queen’s flowers. Figure like this is royalty among koa, and here the order of the court is also the order of the wood.
48 × 32 × 1.3 in
Hale Aliʻi takes the royal court of Hawaii as its subject: the strength of a king paired with the strength of a queen, with the smaller triangles around them as the rest of the court. It is worked in koa recovered on the Big Island, with the rarest curl reserved for the royal figures. A tight, sharp curl forms the king; white sapwood in a broad, regal curl forms the queen’s flowers. Figure like this is royalty among koa, and here the order of the court is also the order of the wood.
