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Florissant petrified stumps Front Range Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
The meadow west of Colorado Springs where the redwoods used to stand, and in a sense still do. A lahar came down off the Guffey volcano thirty-four million years ago and buried a grove of giant sequoias up to their middles. The trunks rotted; the silica in the ash slowly took their place. The Big Stump is fourteen feet across at the base, with two broken saw blades still in it from the 1880s, when somebody tried to ship it to the Chicago World's Fair and couldn't. The ground here is one of the richest fossil beds on the planet. Quiet, today. Wind in the dry grass.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.