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Staff Writer Haiku multimedia artist Tom Sewell cranks the handle of a valve he has transformed into a work of art recently in his studio located in Puunene Millâs former tractor repair shop. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photos PUUNENE — Apart from the occasional jet roaring overhead, shuttered Puunene Mill is silent as Tom Sewell leads a visitor around his sculpture studio gallery located in the mill’s former tractor repair shop. The Haiku multimedia artist’s longtime obsession with documenting the mill and its workers has led him to lease the airy 17,000-square-foot steel build...