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Notre-Dame de la Garde
$22.00
The basilica sits on Marseille's highest hill, 154 metres of limestone above the city, with a gilded Madonna another forty metres above that. La Bonne Mère, locals call her. She watches the harbour. Sailors hung model boats from the ceiling for two centuries as thanks for coming home. The walls are striped white and green, after the Florentine cathedrals. At evening, the statue catches the last of the sun and holds it for a few minutes after the city has gone blue.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.