Maka in Hawaiian means “eyes” and Olo is a new color discovered by scientists meaning “bluish-green”. Olo in Hawaiian means “people weeping together” as is the case when something is lost. I wrote Maka Olo on the Big Island and was inspired in part by a young Hawaiian woman who is building a house by herself out of hand-cut lava rocks in respect and admiration for the ancient Hawiians who built structures in the same manner. I asked ‘Why?” and she told me that it would last thousands of years.