Artist and ethnographer Nainoa Rosehill shares stories of place-based community, nation-building, and the interweaving of Hawaiian peoples and histories through carefully crafted photography.

Exhibition Grid and PŌ'AI by Pono Potions are proud to present "Pō/Ao'' by Nainoa Rosehill, a curated selection of contemporary photoethnography from Hawai'i Island. As a descendant of volcanically active and dynamically changing homelands, Nainoa focuses on four wahi of the Big Island: Mokuhulu, Kaimū, Kalapana, and Kapa‘ahu. Except for Mokuhulu, three of these wahi became blanketed by lava rock in 2018 due to the volcanic eruption that overtook many areas in lower Puna. Throughout this series of photographs, Rosehill asks us to contemplate what it means to record time and place, as well as the telling of ancestral/communal histories, in the ever-evolving landscapes that build on the foundations of the past, yet render them inaccessible.