Animas Forks ghost town San Juans Ceramic Art Tile

The townsite sits at the confluence of three forks of the Animas River, above 11,200 feet, where the timber thins and the wind comes off the high passes. A handful of wooden buildings still stand: the Duncan house with its bay window facing the meadow, the jail, the Gustavson house. The mining camp held about 450 people in 1883. By 1920 it held no one. The Alpine Loop runs through the site now, and most days a few jeeps come up from Silverton. The visitors walk the boards and don't say much.

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