Foret de Broceliande

A forest in Brittany, about an hour west of Rennes, that medieval poets named Brocéliande before the road maps did. Some 9,000 hectares of oak and beech around the village of Paimpont and its 13th-century abbey. Inside it: a megalithic tomb the locals have called Merlin's for centuries, a spring at Barenton where a stone step was said to summon storms, and a valley where Morgan le Fay was said to hold faithless knights. The Arthurian centre at Comper still publishes the legends in French and Breton. People walk in for the stories and stay for the moss.

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