Idaho Springs mining town Front Range Ceramic Art Tile
A small canyon town an hour west of Denver, where George Jackson found placer gold at the creek mouth in January 1859 and pulled the rush into the mountains. The brick storefronts along Miner Street are mostly the ones the boom built. Clear Creek runs through it loud all summer, the Argo Mill watches from the hillside, and the road keeps going up past Echo Lake, past treeline, all the way to the summit of Mount Blue Sky. The town drains the way mining towns drain when the ore runs out, but Idaho Springs never quite emptied. The hot springs are still open. The headframes are still standing. Somebody is always working on a Victorian roof.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.