Moloka'i Hula Canvas Print

The famous Kanemitsu bakery and cafe has been in downtown kaunakakai, here on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i, since 1931. This laid back coffee shop/bakery is in the middle of town. There famous Moloka'i sweet bread is well known state wide. The spacious but plain dining room has linoleum floors, and Formica tables, but the walls display several old decaying murals that caught my eye. They were created in the thirties by an unknown artist. I photographed two of these murals and restored them to what I believe to be the original colors.

I've lived in Hawaii since 2002, 1200 feet above sea level, on the small rural island of Moloka'i. It is very quiet here, with only about 7,400 residents. I appreciate the quiet life after spending 35 years as a commercial illustrator, senior art director and design director for major advertising agencies and design studios in Chicago, San Francisco and Palo Alto California. I've always loved cooking. In 2002 that love led me to a degree in the Culinary Arts just before moving to Hawaii. Since then I designed and built a house, worked in local restaurants, self-published three cookbooks, and took up photography as a hobby. Now retired, I spend most of my time developing recipes and photographing them, plus researching and writing...