Hawaii
Hawaii and the time capsule opening at ALL ONE
Photo: Liz Stetson
Close up of wedge holding the sculpture together.
As we set up the tools, tables and tent near the ALL ONE sculpture there was a misty rain. Some called it a blessing that graced the beginning of the time capsule opening ceremony.
In 2002, ALL ONE was installed at the Kapi’olani Community College in Honolulu, Hawaii. I cut the sculpture out of thick “weathering” steel back in Vermont and then shipped it to the college. It was fairly easy to assemble and to install quite close to Diamond Head, at the entrance to the college.
Photo: Fred Stetson
Chancellor Leon Richards greets and welcomes me home. Thirteen years ago in 2002 he was present at the dedication of ALL ONE.
Photo: Fred Stetson
Reverend Kaleo Patterson blesses the shovels with water and sacred ti leaf before breaking ground.
Photo: Fred Stetson
Daughter Jen Robins and Melody Heidel (both archeologists) dig into the stony hard earth.
Photo: Liz Stetson
Chancellor Richards and Kyle Honda make progress digging with leather shoes and the capsule appears.
Children sent drawings from Vermont, USA; Oslo, Norway and from Sendai, Japan to be included with the Hawaii drawings in the time capsule buried at ALL ONE.
Drawings from Williston, Vermont and from Sendai, Japan.
There are two ways that ALL ONE connects with our sun and the stars:
When the “cookie cutter” shape under the sculpture is filled with shadow, the sun is overhead. In Hawaii that moment is called La Haina noon. And it happens twice in a year, before summer solstice and after in late May and early June. At this time at solar noon, a person has no shadow.
The second alignment is more conceptual. ALL ONE faces northeast. Around this time in November, the Pleiades star cluster rises in the east as the sun sets in the west. A heliacal rising. Ancient Hawaiians associated this with the return of the god Lono and the beginning of the Makahiki season.
The Maori in New Zealand call this Polynesian connection the Matariki season. At the TELLING STONES sculpture in Mapua, New Zealand, the angle of the rising Pleiades is marked with a jewel-like stone set into a boulder to the southeast. The TELLING STONES marking of the Maori Matariki season is a southern hemisphere reflection of the Hawaiian season honored at the ALL ONE sculpture in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
On November 19, 2015 at the Kapi’olani Community College, the time capsule will be unearthed near the ALL ONE sculpture on campus. ALL ONE was dedicated and the capsule filled in November 2002.
Reverend Kaleo Patterson blessing the sculpture with a ti leaf and water at the dedication
Students in an Arts and Letters class at Punahou School in Honolulu wrote poems illustrated with artwork for the time capsules.
