Meet Pele-The Goddess of Fire

She is inspired by the beauty and spirituality of Hawaii. While creating it, I hoped to express the tension between destruction and creation in volcano eruptions. While the lava destroys and swallows everything on its path, it also becomes the new land, a new hope.

Native Hawaiians beliefs hold that volcanoes are alive and their eruptions are deeply spiritual experiences of how the Earth is reborn. Since volcanoes are alive, they must be treated like a person with rights and responsibilities. Indigenous people believe their welfare and the Earth’s ecological balance are dependent on their continued and appropriate interactions with this living being. (For more info read Richard W. Stoffle work).