Manitou Springs at base of Pikes Front Range Ceramic Art Tile

A small Victorian town at the eastern foot of Pikes Peak, where eight natural springs come up cold and carbonated through the red rock. The Ute called this water sacred long before the resort hotels arrived in the 1870s. The main street still has the gingerbread porches and iron drinking fountains. The cog railway still climbs from town to the 14,115-foot summit, about an hour up and an hour back. Late afternoon, the peak holds the last of the light; the town below holds quiet.

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