Saguenay
— — the river that goes inland like a sea.
Not only on a wall.
“A fjord cut deep into the Canadian Shield, north of Quebec City. The Saguenay River runs roughly a hundred kilometres before it widens at Tadoussac and opens into the St. Lawrence. Cliffs of grey gneiss rise straight from black water. In summer the belugas come up to feed at the mouth. In winter the wind in the fjord has its own name, and the cliffs hold snow in the seams. — from the studio
Saguenay, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
The city of Saguenay sits at the confluence of the Saguenay River and three tributaries in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, about two hundred kilometres north of Quebec City. The Saguenay Fjord runs roughly a hundred and five kilometres east from the city to the village of Tadoussac, where it opens into the St. Lawrence. The fjord was carved by glacial retreat at the close of the last ice age and is one of the southernmost navigable fjords in the world.
The fjord walls are Precambrian gneiss of the Canadian Shield, among the oldest exposed rock on the planet. Cap Trinité, on the south shore, rises about three hundred and fifty metres straight from the water. A wooden statue of Notre-Dame du Saguenay has stood on a ledge of the cape since 1881, placed there by Charles-Napoléon Robitaille after he survived a near-fatal fall through river ice. The Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay protects both shores along most of the fjord's length.
Where the fjord meets the St. Lawrence at Tadoussac, cold oxygen-rich currents bring capelin and krill to the surface, and beluga whales gather to feed. The resident St. Lawrence population is roughly nine hundred animals, listed as endangered under Canada's Species at Risk Act. The same waters draw minke, fin, and occasionally blue whales in summer. The Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park, created in 1998, governs both the fjord mouth and the adjoining estuary.