New York spans dense city to remote High Peaks. Preserve the regional anchor (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hudson Valley, Adirondacks, Catskills, Finger Lakes, Niagara, Long Island, Capital District, Thousand Islands) in every prompt
— — one state holding a city and a wilderness in the same hand.
Not only on a wall.
“New York runs from saltwater piers below the Statue of Liberty to spruce-fir summits above Lake Placid. In between sit the Hudson Valley, the Catskills, the Finger Lakes, the Niagara plume, the Capital District, the Thousand Islands, and the long maritime tail of Long Island. One state, many landscapes. The atlas needs more than one tile to hold it.
New York spans dense city to remote High Peaks. Preserve the regional anchor (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hudson Valley, Adirondacks, Catskills, Finger Lakes, Niagara, Long Island, Capital District, Thousand Islands) in every prompt, 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.
New York State covers about 54,555 square miles and roughly 19.5 million residents, the bulk in the New York City metro at the mouth of the Hudson River (U.S. Census, 2020). The state reaches from the Atlantic shore of Long Island north to the St. Lawrence River and west to the Great Lakes. The Adirondacks rise to Mount Marcy at 5,344 feet; the Catskills, the Hudson Valley, the Finger Lakes, and the Niagara Frontier each carry distinct geology and weather.
Water defines the map. The Hudson runs 315 miles from Lake Tear of the Clouds on Mount Marcy to New York Harbor (USGS). The Erie Canal, opened in 1825, joined the Hudson to Lake Erie at Buffalo and made the state's interior. Niagara's Horseshoe Falls move roughly 600,000 gallons per second over the cataract (Niagara Parks). The eleven Finger Lakes were carved by Pleistocene glaciers, with Seneca reaching 618 feet deep.
Four sharp seasons. Adirondack winters routinely hold below zero Fahrenheit at elevation, with snow lingering into May at the High Peaks. Catskill and Finger Lakes foliage peaks in early to mid-October; the city's parks turn a week or two later. Summer brings heat and Atlantic humidity to Long Island and cooler nights to the mountains. North Fork harvest runs September into November (Long Island Wine Council).