Bisbee Queen Mine

At the south end of Bisbee, where the Mule Mountains drop into Queen Mine Canyon, the Copper Queen ran from 1877 to 1975 — nearly a century of underground copper that built the town above it. Since 1976 a small electric mine train has carried visitors a third of a mile into the original workings, helmeted and lit, behind a retired Phelps Dodge miner guiding the tour.

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