43 × 38 × 1.3 in
Kahiko, meaning ancient, renders old Hawaii in its simplest terms. It is worked in two tones of salvaged koa, from before white sapwood entered the work. The symbolism is direct: triangles for the islands, flowers for the living land, and the patterning around them for the culture built upon both. One of the earliest panels in the body of work, it was made while the pattern language was first taking shape, and it marks the point everything after it grew from.
43 × 38 × 1.3 in
Kahiko, meaning ancient, renders old Hawaii in its simplest terms. It is worked in two tones of salvaged koa, from before white sapwood entered the work. The symbolism is direct: triangles for the islands, flowers for the living land, and the patterning around them for the culture built upon both. One of the earliest panels in the body of work, it was made while the pattern language was first taking shape, and it marks the point everything after it grew from.
