Makawalu Kapa’ohua is a layered visual meditation on the Hawaiian concept of makawalu — meaning “eight eyes,” or more expansively, to see from multiple perspectives at once. This piece invites viewers to engage with complex relationships between form, memory, and ancestral presence through repetition, rhythm, and variation.

Created using hand-press relief print techniques and painted directly onto acrylic panels, the work draws from the visual language and tactile spirit of kapa-making, where rhythmic marks, pigment, and pressure give voice to unseen forces. Each geometric form — circles, crescents, triangles — echoes traditional symbology, appearing again and again in layered sequences that evoke motion, reflection, and insight.

The grid structure suggests both balance and multiplicity — offering many ways of seeing, many ways of knowing. This is not a single image, but a constellation of shifting relationships, much like ancestral wisdom itself: never static, always unfolding.

Purchased by OluKai for its Queen’s Marketplace store in Waikoloa, this work stands as a visual acknowledgment of Indigenous ways of seeing — at once grounded, expansive, and alive.