Cassis Port

A small fishing port east of Marseille, at the foot of Cap Canaille, one of the tallest sea cliffs in France. The harbour bends into a half-moon of pastel houses, with white-wine vineyards on the slopes behind. Fishing boats still come in at dawn. Beyond the breakwater the limestone calanques begin, deep blue-green inlets that draw the boat tours out from the quay all morning. By afternoon the cliff above turns the colour of dried brick. Before the day-trippers come down from Marseille, the only sound is rigging against mast.

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