Cobh

Cobh sits on Great Island in Cork Harbour, pastel houses stacked up the hill below a cathedral that runs the sky. For two and a half million people leaving Ireland between the famine and the postwar years, Cobh was the last thing they saw of the country. The RMS Titanic stopped here on the 11th of April, 1912, took on 123 passengers, and left. Three years later, when the Lusitania was hit, the survivors and the recovered dead came back into this harbour. The town carries all of that without making a museum of itself. The bells from the cathedral carry over the water. The boats still come in.

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