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Lone Cypress
$22.00
A single Monterey cypress on a granite shelf above the Pacific, along 17-Mile Drive on the western edge of the Monterey Peninsula. The species is endemic to a few miles of this coast; these trees grow naturally almost nowhere else on earth. Cables have held the trunk through the winter storms since the late 1940s. The pull-out is busy in the middle of the day. The long light at the end of the afternoon, when the coaches have moved on, is what photographers wait for. The Pebble Beach Company has used the silhouette as its mark for decades. The tree itself does not seem to mind.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.