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Maroon Lake reflection Elk Range Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
The small alpine lake at the base of the Maroon Bells, where the rock and the water do the same trick at first light. The Bells are sedimentary, Maroon Formation mudstone, the colour of dried brick. The lake is glacier-fed, sheltered, and on the right pre-dawn morning it goes flat enough to read as a mirror. Photographers gather on the eastern boardwalk before the shuttle arrives at the trailhead. By mid-morning the wind comes up and the doubled peaks dissolve. Most people only see the reflection in pictures and assume it must be retouched. The picture is right. The water does that.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.