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Famine Cottage Ruin
$22.00
A single roofless cottage on the way out to Slea Head. Stone walls, gable still standing, the doorway open to the Atlantic. Hundreds like it stand along Ireland's west coast, most quietly returning to the field. The Dingle Peninsula carries them well: the road runs close to the shore and the cottages sit just above it, in townlands that emptied in the 1840s and never came back. Locals on the R559 drive past them without ceremony. The wind does most of the visiting.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.