Hanging Lake travertine pool Ceramic Art Tile

A travertine pool clinging to a cliff above the Colorado River, seven miles east of Glenwood Springs. The colour comes from carbonate minerals laid down grain by grain as Dead Horse Creek spills over the lip. The trail to it climbs a thousand feet in just over a mile, and the U.S. Forest Service holds the count to a few hundred visitors a day now. The lake was nearly loved to pieces in the 2010s, then half-burned in the Grizzly Creek fire of 2020. People come up quiet. They go down quieter.

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