Crowley Lake Columns — ceramic art tile

Crowley Lake Columns

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Crowley Lake Columns — ceramic art tile
  • Crowley Lake Columns — ceramic art tile
  • Crowley Lake Columns — front
  • Crowley Lake Columns — scale
  • Crowley Lake Columns — gifting
  • Crowley Lake Columns — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
  • Crowley Lake Columns — ceramic art tile
  • Crowley Lake Columns — front
  • Crowley Lake Columns — scale
  • Crowley Lake Columns — gifting
  • Crowley Lake Columns — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
Crowley Lake Columns

Crowley Lake Columns

$22.00
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On the eastern shore of Crowley Lake, where the reservoir level rises and falls with the Owens River, the wave-cut bank uncovers a colonnade of nearly five thousand stone columns. They stand fifteen to twenty feet tall, spaced about two meters apart, regular as a Roman cloister. The volcanic ash that holds them was laid down by an eruption of the Long Valley Caldera roughly 760,000 years ago. Cold snowmelt percolated down through the hot ash, the boiling water rose in evenly spaced convection cells, and the ash hardened around them. The lake found them. Most people drive past Bishop without knowing they are there.

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

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