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Carrick-a-Rede
$22.00
A small volcanic island just off the cliffs of north Antrim, reached by a rope bridge slung twenty metres across and thirty above the sea. Salmon fishermen first strung a rope here in 1755; the fish ran this gap between the headlands, and the men needed a way out to the island to set their nets. The salmon are gone now, since the early 2000s. The bridge is still here. The National Trust runs it on timed entry; the wind closes it some days. On a still afternoon the sea is loud below.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.