Lowry Pueblo great kiva Four Corners Ceramic Art Tile

A small pueblo on the Great Sage Plain, the kind of road that turns to dirt before the gate. Forty rooms above ground, eight kivas, and a great kiva sunk underground, built around 1090 and repainted in geometric murals across five layers of plaster. People lived here for a hundred and sixty-five years. They kept coming back, kept building higher, kept painting over the same walls. It sits about a hundred miles north of Chaco, near the northern edge of where the old roads ran. The BLM keeps it quietly. Most days the road in is empty.

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