Forest Canyon overlook Rocky Mountain National Park Ceramic Art Tile

The drop from the parking lot is sudden. A short paved walk, and then the ground falls away two thousand feet into Forest Canyon, where the Big Thompson cuts a line nobody walks. The overlook stands on alpine tundra, above the treeline; the canyon below stays dark with spruce and subalpine fir. Park rangers will tell you the valley is essentially trackless: dense blowdown, no maintained route in. From the rail you can see the Never Summer range across the divide. Most visitors stay five minutes. Some stay longer.

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