Dream Lake Rocky Mountain National Park Ceramic Art Tile

A long thin lake at 9,905 feet, reached in a mile from Bear Lake. The trail climbs through subalpine spruce, past Nymph Lake and its lily pads, then opens onto the water with Hallett Peak standing straight up out of it. Most of the year the lake is famous for the reflection, but the season the artwork records is winter. From late October the surface closes over, and by January the ice runs two feet thick and goes cobalt where the pressure cracks. The wind off Flattop runs all afternoon. The blue belongs to the cold.

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