Puna T

I lived the past couple of years on the big island, in the Puna district.  Puna is where the Hawaiian Goddess Pele lives, in her volcano Kilauea, the most active volcano on earth.  I walked out to the lava flow on three different occasions.  And there is nothing like it.

This t is a bit of a love song and call out to that district.  Lots of free thinking liberals, hippies young and old, native Hawaiian peoples, and all other sorts passing through.  I had an amazing time of it and learned so much, the least of which is how to make my own t’s.  I stencil the design (yup, every little bit of ink was cut out of paper, first, it took me ten hours), then screen printed.  I only have a few left, 20 bucks each.  There is also a skate shop in Pahoa that did have a few left; the shop is on the main drag in that cool town, right down from Loquin’s Mexican restaurant, across from the Thai place with awesome curries.

‘Puna,’ among other things, means ‘beloved.’