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Skellig Michael
$22.00
A pyramid of stone rising 218 metres straight from the Atlantic, eight miles west of Portmagee. Six dry-stone beehive cells stand on the upper ledge, built around the sixth century and lived in by monks for six hundred years. More than six hundred steps climb from the landing. The boats run from May to early October when the swell allows, and not on the days it doesn't. Puffins nest in the burrows below the saddle in late spring. Most days the rock wears a half-collar of fog. The Office of Public Works caps the island at 180 visitors a day.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.