Carving at the Holiday Inn Cocoa Beach, Commodore Club Indialantic, and Indialantic Art Show

Seaside art

Ed Volonnino of Cocoa Beach carves a tiki in a palm tree next to the boardwalk behind the Holiday Inn. Although the work is not within view, we were told that an artist never shows his work until it's done.

TODAY photo by Malcolm Denemark

Tiki time

Ed Volonnino of Cocoa Beach shapes a dead palm tree trunk into a tiki at the Commodore Club Condominium in Indialantic. Ed has been doing this work for five years.

Times photo by Steve

Ed's Heads, he calls them. Ed Volonnino of Indialantic gave the festival a Polynesian touch with these Tiki carvings made from palm tree trunks.

Florida native art at its clearest and best, Ed's Heads — "Tiki" carvings of Ed Volonnino, Indialantic — came next. Many of the crowd seemed to know Ed, whose carved palm trunks of unusual depth and complexity take from a few days to two weeks to complete. One, about nine feet tall (allowing for the hole in which it's planted) didn't really wink ...