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Ostia Antica
$22.00
The port of Rome, twenty-five minutes by train from the city and most of a thousand years quieter than it was. Whole streets of brick apartment blocks still stand, roofless now, their doorways and stairwells open to the sky. In the square behind the theatre, the floor mosaics of the old shipping guilds still show their boats and lighthouses. The sea has pulled back three kilometres since the warehouses were full. People come for Pompeii and miss this; the ones who make the trip tend to have it half to themselves.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.