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Mercantour Dark Sky Reserve
$22.00
An hour and a half north of Nice the Maritime Alps lift away from the Côte d'Azur, climbing to the limestone summits along the Italian border. The Parc national du Mercantour and a buffer of surrounding communes were certified together as the Alpes Azur Mercantour International Dark Sky Reserve in 2019, roughly 2,300 square kilometres of land the coastal sprawl below cannot reach. On a clear night the Milky Way arrives overhead as a band, not a hint, and Andromeda is visible to the unaided eye. Wolves walked back over the Italian border in 1992. Bronze Age engravings on the slabs above Mont Bégo. The stars never left.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.