Bachelor Loop Creede San Juans Ceramic Art Tile

A seventeen-mile dirt loop above the last silver town in Colorado. The road climbs out of Creede into the Bachelor mining district, past the Commodore and Amethyst headframes, through aspen so thick that the second week of October the whole canyon turns gold. The volcanic walls of the Creede caldera show in red and chalk above the road. Most passenger cars manage the lower half in dry weather; the high cut to the Bachelor townsite wants clearance. Worth the slow drive for the way the light works on the tailings.

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