Mission San Juan Bautista — ceramic art tile

Mission San Juan Bautista

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Mission San Juan Bautista — ceramic art tile

Mission San Juan Bautista

$22.00
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The fifteenth California mission, founded by Fermín Lasuén in 1797 on a flat bench above the Salinas Valley. The longest church of the chain. Three aisles, a thing none of the others has. The plaza out front is still the original packed earth. The San Andreas fault runs along the edge of the orchard; on a quiet day the El Camino Real disappears into the hills behind it. Hitchcock filmed the bell-tower scene here in 1958, though the tower itself was a matte painting. The bells he heard are real, and ring on the hour.

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

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