![]() ![]() We were living in this tiny little hamlet and it was winter and it was cold and during the off-season there’s just nothing - everything shuts down. Sarah brought up Key West because it’s warm and it’s about as far south as you can get without leaving the U.S. “I told Sarah I wanted to go on a trip that would really change my life - I had envisioned a voyage across Europe or something really grand, but we didn’t want to leave the country. “At the time, we hadn’t been on vacation in five years,” Mark explains. It’s peaceful and quiet, yet there’s almost always something to see.”Īlthough their presence in Key West seems natural, Mark and Sarah’s first visit to the island was somewhat of a random decision. And since we’ve moved to Key West, I spend at least half my mornings at Ft. When I retired about five years ago, I started getting into it more and practicing more. “I mostly started doing film photography and had a great time doing that, but as life went on I got busy and my art dropped by the wayside. “I’ve been doing photography as a hobby since I was just out of college,” Sarah begins. Neatly arranged pottery tools adorn the walls. The large-format photographs are printed on aluminum, giving them a depth and radiance, as well as a modern look. Since retiring from the corporate world in 2014, Sarah has focused on creating a body of work featuring the quiet beauty of Key West, especially the natural stillness within Fort Zachary Taylor State Park. Much like Mark, Sarah has loved and practiced photography for decades. The Finger Lakes is a bustling tourist area, so I took the move as an opportunity to begin a real career selling my pottery.” A change that big takes time! And then along came Sarah - we wanted to be together, so I moved from Ithaca to Hammondsport. I knew it was something I wanted to do professionally, it just took a long time to get there. “I was a social worker at the time, but I fell in love with pottery right away. “I started doing ceramics in the mid-90s and it was really just a hobby,” Mark recounts. After meeting Sarah 14 years ago, he moved to Hammondsport, N.Y., started Mark Klammer Pottery and became a Roycroft artisan. Mark started working in ceramics in the 1990s in Ithaca, N.Y. ![]() Shade & Shutter’s in-house kiln allows Mark Klammer to fire his pieces at will. ![]()
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