Amboy Crater — ceramic art tile

Amboy Crater

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Amboy Crater — ceramic art tile

Amboy Crater

$22.00
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A cinder cone in the eastern Mojave, on old Route 66 between Ludlow and Needles. The lava field around it runs black for miles, glassy where it hasn't crumbled, and the cone rises out of it the colour of wet ash, breached on one side where the last flow came through. A three-mile loop crosses the field to the rim. Best walked in winter; summer here runs past 110°F. Up the road, the Roy's Motel sign is still standing, hand-painted, leaning a little. Nobody hurries through this stretch of Route 66.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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