Kiele’s ‘Aumakua

When I came back to Hawai’i after twenty years of living in South America, I had to re introduce myself as an artist to the people of this island, the best way I found to do so was to start sharing my work on social media, that is how I met Kiele about six years ago. On instagram she has always been a big supporter of my work which is a pretty big incentive to keep on creating, we finally met at an art show on the North Shore and have been in touch since then.

When I was offered this space to exhibit at Turtle Bay, she posted a photo of herself free diving, I looked at it and it looked perfect to place on a longboard, at first I thought of adding turtles to it but then I visualized the hammerheads, so I asked her  what did she preferred, her answers was “Hammerheads all the way”, that didn’t surprise me at all being that she is Hawaiian and the spiritual relation that they have with sharks. So “Kiele’s Aumakua” seemed to be the perfect fit for this longboard about my Hawaiian friend.