Opening Day

Two bird dogs wait at the edge of a field, capturing the familiar anticipation of an opening morning in the South. Painted at miniature scale on a single fragment of historic stoneware, Opening Day preserves one of those rituals where landscape, tradition, and memory become inseparable.

Year: 2026
 Medium: Oil on historic pottery fragment
 Pottery: Albany-slipped stoneware, primarily c. 1880–1920
 Locality: Eastern Shore, Mobile Bay, Ala.
 Framed dimensions: 13.5 × 13.5 in.
 Original artwork: One of a kind