Sorbonne Square

The small square that opens in front of the Sorbonne, two minutes off the Boulevard Saint-Michel. The Chapelle Sainte-Ursule rises from the far end, the facade Cardinal Richelieu commissioned in 1635 when he rebuilt the college. Plane trees over the centre. A fountain in the middle of the cafés. Students stop here between lectures, tourists stop here without quite knowing why. Of all the squares in the fifth arrondissement, this is the one that still reads as a square: small, leafy, slightly older than the rest of Paris around it.

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