This sculpture, “Nana I Ke Kumu” (Look to the Source), was completed in 1995 by Michael Weidenbach of Hawaii (the *other* Michael…the one with the BFA, MFA from University of Hawaii) and was purchased by the City of Honolulu in 1999 for the grounds of the Mission Memorial Auditorium.

(Larger version)

Michael is also the Curator of the Battleship Missouri Memorial, which boasts 400,000 visitors annually, and he recently oversaw a refit and preservation of the historic vessel. 

• ‘Mighty Mo’ undergoing $18M preservation
• Fact: More than one-third of the world’s commercial supply of pineapples comes from Hawaii.  Michael has little to do with this.