Cefalù

A small town on the north coast of Sicily, gathered at the foot of one enormous rock. The Greeks called it Kephaloídion, the head, for the way the headland pushes out into the Tyrrhenian. Roger II raised the cathedral here in 1131, the story goes, after a storm put him ashore on this beach. Its two Norman towers stand gold against the grey stone of the crag, and the sea comes right up to the old town. People washed here into living memory, at the medieval lavatoio where the Cefalino still runs out to the water.

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