Sacred Mountain (2014) Online
Our Hawaiian ancestors never destroyed to advance, never constructed in a manner that would irreparably harm their island home or its inhabitants. They were a people who protected the balance, the alignment, the interdependence, and the energy in all things. They knew on the deepest of levels how connected all was and is still, not just to here, but to everywhere and everything. In us, that memory still lives. I am asking you, my people, my public, to imagine over 18 stories of concrete in the construction of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope on our mountain, Mauna Kea, and the excavation of over five acres of the sacred landscape of Mauna Kea that still moves and shakes and is still alive.