A School

Artist Name: Pihahauʻoli Ciotti 

School: Kamehameha Schools 

Age: 8

OER Food Systems Award: This award, presented by the Office of Economic Revitalization, celebrates creative expression that reflects the values of Hawai‘i’s local food systems and supports a vision of economic resilience.

ʻŌlelo noʻeau: Holo iʻa ka papa, kau ʻia e ka manu. 

English Translation: When the shoals are full of fish, the birds gather over them. 

Interpretation: Where there is food, people will gather.

Artist Statement: There is a loko ‘ia and in the fishpond there are fish. People go to the loko ‘ia to catch fish. I titled this “A School” because I’m teaching people where there are resources and how their actions affect the Uka and the Kai. Also, a group of fish is called a school.