Hook Head Lighthouse

The southeasternmost point of Ireland, where the Celtic Sea meets the mouth of Waterford Harbour. The tower has stood since the early 1200s, when William Marshal raised a stone keep above the spot where monks had kept a warning fire burning for centuries before. Automated since 1996, the light still turns. The limestone the tower is built from is older still: fossils of sea creatures are pressed into the rock at the base, and the cliffs around it are studied by geologists. One of the oldest operational lighthouses in the world.

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