Highland Springs Lavender

Twenty acres of lavender in Cherry Valley, planted on what was once a stagecoach stop on the road to the desert. The farm sits in the San Gorgonio Pass, between the San Bernardino Mountains and Mount San Jacinto, where the wind moves through almost every afternoon. The vera variety is hand-cut from early June through mid-July, the festival running alongside the harvest each weekend. By midsummer the field reads as a long lavender line against the dry hills behind it. The bees are there before anyone else is. The oil is distilled on the property in a single stainless still.

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