When I see you, I am a lizard in the sun

She winters in blankets of leaves and cracks of logs.
She lives in the midst of the flame without pain, her icy gaze extinguishes the fire with a breath.
She slips out when the flowers bloom, stretching their long green arms in the shadow of the mountain peaks, weaving the thoughts of men.

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Wild red clay and kaolin slip from Bisalta

Fired in oxidation at 1250°C

⌀ 32,5 cm

The clay for this large round tile was foraged from a deposit of quartzitic clay on Mt Bisalta. The bright kaolin slip comes from just a few hundred metres below, from a small vein of weathered Bisaltite, a type of green rhyolite typical of the mountain.

It is decorated with the sgraffito technique.

Mt Bisalta is a mountain in the south of Piedmont. It’s a special place for its recognizable two-tops shape visible from all around the region, a symbol of the Italian Resistenza and the partisans' liberation fight from the fascist regime.