La Perouse

Oil on Canvas 21.5x27.5

SOLD

Stop for a moment to watch the setting sun sink into Molokai and consider how all this beauty came into being.
The Earth came from the efforts of Old Spider, who soared over the endless sea and found a giant clam. She opened it and crawled inside, finding a snail there to share the space with her. She set the snail in the west and made it into the Moon to shed some light into the darkness. Together they raised up the top of the clam shell to make the sky, pushing it until it was wide open.Then they pushed the bottom half of the clam shell in the other direction to make the ground The earth was called Papa and the sky Ranga. These are the two first beings who created all the flowers, plants, trees and animals on the islands and fish in the sea.They celebrated all their open space by making as many beautiful creatures as they could imagine, but they still remained separated by the work of the original Old Spider. Each night, Ranga weeps for his beloved Papa earth, and this is where the morning dew comes from.