Liberty Bell Mine Telluride San Juans Ceramic Art Tile

A gold mine ran in the basin above Telluride from 1898 into the 1920s. The morning of February 28, 1902, three avalanches came down the slope above the boardinghouse. The first took the buildings. The second took the rescuers. The third took the men on the trail. Sixteen lost. The ruins are still up there in the high cirque, weathered timber against rock the colour of bone.

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