Thursday May 25th, 1995
Hawaii (Maui): Circling around Haleakala National Park.

















It took us six hours by car to circle around
the Eastern--and biggest--part of Maui.


We leave Hana--the Easternmost part of the Island--
at 11:30 am and drive South.
The road is like a Disneyland ride,
clean, very curvy with amazing bright-colored surroundings.
It feels like it was made for touristic activities
but it is too balanced and unbalanced at the same time
to have been imagined by a designer,
even one such as Lucio Costa.


The transition between the green/tropical/Northern part of Maui
and the yellow/arid/Southern part is very abrupt.
Interestingly, the pavement of the road
follows that transition
(North = smooth asphalt; South = dirt road and patched asphalt).
Renting a Jeep allows for a risk-free adventure
the kind of adventure Maui is good at providing.


South, the landscape is divided in three colors:
blue, blue, yellow and dark, very dark brown.
Many of the brown areas of color visible from the road
are little man-made piles of volcanic rocks.
We stop on the shoulder
and again, in a split second,
I create a negative space-based sculpture entitled:
"Double Negative in your mirror are closer than they appear."


And we went to the summit of Pu'u 'Ula'ula.


And we stopped at Hookipa before closing the circle.

yesterday tomorrow