San Simeon Elephant Seals — ceramic art tile

San Simeon Elephant Seals

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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San Simeon Elephant Seals — ceramic art tile
  • San Simeon Elephant Seals — ceramic art tile
  • San Simeon Elephant Seals — front
  • San Simeon Elephant Seals — scale
  • San Simeon Elephant Seals — gifting
  • San Simeon Elephant Seals — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
  • San Simeon Elephant Seals — ceramic art tile
  • San Simeon Elephant Seals — front
  • San Simeon Elephant Seals — scale
  • San Simeon Elephant Seals — gifting
  • San Simeon Elephant Seals — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
San Simeon Elephant Seals

San Simeon Elephant Seals

$22.00
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A strip of beach about six miles north of San Simeon, between Highway 1 and the Pacific, where a few hundred northern elephant seals first hauled out in 1990 and stayed. The colony has grown to around 25,000 animals — the largest mainland rookery in California. In December the bulls come ashore, fifteen feet long and more than two tons each, and pups are born through January. The wind off the water carries the sound of them inland: low, throaty, almost mechanical. The species was hunted to about a hundred individuals in the 1890s. Almost every northern elephant seal alive today is descended from that small surviving group.

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

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