Sunrise Rainbow
Remembering Hawaii’s early morning rainbows
It was a few weeks ago, on an early morning run on a back country road outside the Big Island town of Waimea, where I witnessed my first fog rainbow. With a rising sun just behind me, a magnificent rainbow projected itself over the fragments of the fog bank brooding above the hills in front of me. This rainbow arched impossibly high. Each bloom of fog was painted with a section of rainbow — bits of blue sky interspersed between the fog clouds, but the arc clearly continuous and invisible. The illusion lasted for a few moments, disappearing as quickly as it had appeared. Magical.
For this work, I resisted trying to create a literal rainbow. It’s more the idea of colors which project themselves from some hidden source onto a circular arc, the colors gradually lightening as they radiate outward.
This is the fifth and final stepping stone in my rectangular series (to be placed in our Zen garden.) It was great fun to experiment with a few new stones from my mosaic supplier: Aegean Rose (middle section of the red ray, between Aegean Claret and Red Travertine); Verona Gold (the inner section of the yellow ray); and Ming Green (the outer section of the green ray.)
My next project is a series of five hexagonal stepping stones that I’ll start later this month. More to follow…
