La Roque-Gageac

A village pressed against a limestone cliff on the Dordogne, between Beynac and Domme in the Périgord Noir. The cliff faces south and stores the day's warmth, which is why oleander and banana grow in the public garden below it. Brown-red Périgord roofs, ochre stone, the river slow and shallow. Above the village, the twelfth-century troglodyte fort cut into the rock looks down on the gabarres setting out from the quay. Nobody hurries past it.

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