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= Ē Luku Wale Ē: Devastation Upon Devastation = Ē Luku Wale Ē is a black and white visual essay about the H-3 Interstate construction by Piliāmoʻo, a collaborative photography practice between Kapulani Landgraf and Mark Hamasaki. Kapulani Landgraf is a native Hawaiian photographer and author born and raised in Pūʻahuʻula, Kāneʻohe who's authored several Ka Palapala Poʻokela award winning books. Mark Hamasaki is the co-founded the ʻElepaio Press and is an art and photography professor at Windward Community College. Pilāmoʻo centers their pieces around water and land rights in the Koʻolaupoko region of Oʻahu, emphasizing the importance of rootedness of place.

H-3 Interstate Construction
The H-3 Interstate is a 16 mile highway built between Hālawa and Haʻikū Valley, tunnelling through the Koʻolau Mountain Range on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. This project is notorious for being the largest and most extensive public works project done in Hawaiʻi to date, the entire lifetime of the project spanning 37 years and $1.3 billion dollars. The project was initiated to connect the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and Kāneʻohe Marine Corps Base.

Community Response
Midway through the project's discussion, President Nixon established the National Environmental Policy Act, forcing large public works projects to go through extensive environmental impact studies, resulting in delay and rerouting of the interstate. Alongside this, many Native Hawaiians, environmental groups, and landowners in the area strongly opposed the H-3 and continuously challenged the construction. While it was fact the interstate path went through several endemic forests, there was much argument and misinformation regarding the existence of heiau, funeral mounds, and ancient Hawaiian irrigation systems along the trail. Nonetheless, the project resumed in full bloom in once Senator Daniel K. Inouye championed the project to be exempt from environmental law, bridging off the 1986 appropriations bill.

Activism Through Photography and Literature
Kapulani Landgraf and Mark Hamasaki, at this time student and Professor, both went to photograph the construction. Entering from Ha'iku Access road, every Sunday when the construction workers were at home, they went and photographed the demolition of the various artifacts, heiau, and endemic forests before, during, and after the H-3 freeway construction as well as the untidy nature of the interstate's project.

Published Book
Years later after the construction, Piliāmoʻo collected the various pieces of writing and photography in the 168 page book E Luku Wale Ē: Devastation Upon Devastation in 2015, published by the ʻAi Pōhaku Press, designed by Barbara Pope, and authored by Kapulani Landgraf, Mark Hamasaki, and Dennis Kawaharada, authoring the introduction. Contained in the book are various kanikau (dirges) and black and white landscape photographs that build a narrative of on-going grief towards what was lost in the name of progress.

Exhibitions
Aside from the published book, the kanikau and archival photographs of the construction have been shared in several exhibitions: Curated by Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, his Thesis Exhibition at the CSS Bard Galleries in the Hessel Museum of Art from April to May 2019 featured 8 selenium toned silver gelatin prints of several photographs from Ē Luku Wale Ē: Devastation upon Devastation that were originally in the first 1997 exhibition of Piliāmoʻo's work in the Honolulu Advertiser Gallery. Additionally, newspaper clippings from Piliāmoʻo's collection were featured, and all work is titled exclusively in the Hawaiian language.

Ē Luku Wale Ē was also featured as part of the 2022 Honolulu Triennial. Located in the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum, the black and white photographs were both large silver gelatin and digital prints with exclusively Hawaiian titles, and included in the exhibit were pages from the published book in large display cases, typographic artwork, and a video installation.