Crystal Mill at Marble Elk Range Ceramic Art Tile

A wooden powerhouse on a rock above the Crystal River, six miles past Marble, in the Elk Mountains. Built in 1892 to compress air for the silver mine on Sheep Mountain. The mine closed before the First World War; the town of Crystal emptied; the building stayed. The road in is one of the roughest jeep tracks in Colorado, and most who make it stand for a while saying very little. The aspens turn the last week of September, when the gold and the grey wood and the small fall under the floor all line up at once.

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