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Paint Mines Interpretive Park Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
Forty miles east of Colorado Springs the prairie thins, dips, and opens onto a slot of clay spires the wind has been carving for centuries. The colours are real: pink, orange, white, a deep iron red, left behind by the oxidation of iron in the clay. Native peoples gathered pigment here for some nine thousand years. The county keeps the park free, open daily from dawn to dusk, and walking the loop takes about an hour. Nobody climbs on the hoodoos. Most people come at sunrise or sunset, when the light finds the colour and pulls it forward.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.