Fine Art from Renowned Big Island Artist
Calley  O'Neill

Giclee:
Small (approx. 19" x 24")$525
Large (approx 24" x 36") $975
Mahina
Mahina is the word for moon in Hawaiian.  Throughout all cultures there is a story about the beautiful face of the woman (or all too often the man) in the moon. 

As I recall the story, Mahina was married to a man who insisted that she work all day long, gathering and preparing food beating and decorating kapa, or tapa (bark cloth).  Mahina gathered, soaked and beat endless yards of beautiful white kapa from the bark of the mulberry tree.  After many years, Mahina tired the labor and her husband’s nagging and asked if she could be released from the drudgery.
The Gods sent for her and she climbed on the kappa to a special ladder, where she climbed to the moon and looks peacefully down upon us from her perennial home in the light..