The Meal

The detail on this serving platter really caught my eye because it reminded me of a pattern on one of my grandmother's handmade casserole dishes that she brought from Mexico. I would like to try a form like this for my meal as a serving platter

The Meal

Drinking Vessels

Jeff Campana

The way he uses simple lines to create a geometric design with an organic feel is what I enjoy about Campana’s work. I also like the simple but recognizable imagery that he creates on the inside.

  

BOWLS

Joe Davis

For this project I am going for an organic look to my pieces so Davis’s work is perfect for inspiration. 

Aysha Peltz – I also want my the inside of my bowl to be just as much of as experience as the outside. I draw inspiration from her ability to make this piece breathe the way it does. 

Martha Grover

Judi Tavill

PLATES

Emily Schroeder

What drew me to this artist was how she created beautiful abstract design using color and dots on a seemingly simple plate, and then added rounded protruding shapes out of one side. The protrusions make the shape much more interesting and make them seem alive in a sense, like they’re trying to come out from inside the plate. 

Lindsay Rogers

 

DESSERT PLATES

Ryan Fletcher

Although this one doesn’t follow along a similar organic path as the other picks have, this style of plate serves more of a functional inspiration for me. I prefer having little portions of different kinds of desserts when it comes to a dinner setting so for this project I want to do the same.

The Meal | Kirsten

I chose to recreate the school lunch tray to bring awareness to the institutionalized like lunchtime children in America have each day. There are many different ways to change lunchrooms for american students to set them up for success and healthy lives!

We herd the kids through the lunch line just to give them the standard numbers of calories v. fat recommended by the FDA but food in America can be so much more in our school. This is the perfect opportunity to influence America's children to healthy options, proportions and the correct social environment. We could also take time to create positive ideas of other social cultures with food. The average American household is a two parent income which leaves little time for sit down dinners. With the average family also eating out a few times a week too, this is even less of an opportunity for children to learn how to socialize and eat healthy. This redesign of our lunchrooms could positively affect our health care and obesity epidemic along with a whole new generation of educated parents to pass these ideas down to their families.

Choosing to influence children when they are younger and in a controlled environment is the perfect moment that we can not afford to pass up. Our own community has a high rate of reduced and free lunches so if the government is already paying and controlling these meals they should also implement a plan of action to make them more successful.

This is similar to trays I have seen for tapas and sushi. I chose these two examples for their use of geometric shapes.

 American Lunch

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The Meal

This bowl created by DAMeadows really intrigued me and made me think about how I can incorporate negative space while still making the utensil functional. It would be interesting to create like a platter or salad bowl that had negative space but could still hold food, probably not hold anything liquid. 

This set of slab plates done by Annie Crietzberg also interested me because the plates are unified in the fact that they are the same shape/style, but vary in color and texture. I would like to do something similar with my meal project by making the same plates and utensils but adding a different color and texture to each place setting. 

The Meal

While researching artists, I drew inspiration from Karen Karns’ work and her many anthropomorphic vessels. I admire the organic qualities and the subtle remanence of the human form in her work.

I have personally drawn inspiration from the inner parts of the body for this assignment. I decided to use different internal organs for the certain vessels to depict mental illness and how it affects the body mentally and physically. Shigemasa Higashidas ceramics also inspired me with the loose gestural qualities in many of their own ceramic works.

 I would like for my place setting to take on an organic form that goes beyond the known imagery of the organs. I want the meal to be thoughtful of health being more than a number on a scale it is your mental and physical well-being. My place setting will tell a story about how your body as a whole depends on individual pieces to keep it working properly. Much like a table setting is not finished without all of the working parts, plates, cups, bowls, etc. My setting will aim to give the audience a new view on mental illness and break the stigma behind those who are suffering things that maybe no one else can understand.

Ideas About “The Meal"

My foremost inspiration for this assignment came from the Greek practice of symposium. This was essentially a drinking party that was an opportunity for people to share and develop philosophical ideas. My goal in this project is to construct a modern symposium but I plan to remove the normal layers of social interaction. I plan to serve a meal consisting of only water, alcohol and Soylent. This meal will only require cups and serving pitchers.

I looked into the original symposiums and their many traditions, I have decided to draw inspiration from the tradishonal form of the Ancient Greek Oenochoe. This style of pitcher was used to serve the wine I plan to use this form as inspiration for my alcohol serving vessels.

I also was interested in the more minimalist work of Careen Stoll, particularly in the way that the forms of both pitcher and cup are reminiscent of each other. I find the idea of having a set of glasses that are matched to their pitcher attractive. The use of color on the interior portions of the pieces I find effective as I plan to have little or no color in my own work for this project.

I also found the more open and clean forms of Karen Swyler’s work to be very interesting. These open vessels with tapered lips and diagonal lines I find to be energetic and visually interesting. I Plan to use some of these shapes and design elements in my own work. I also find myself drawn to the more minimalist pure white of these vessels as it offers no distraction from the skillful design.  

The Meal ideas

My inspiration comes from Older countryside french cooking and the artist Margaret Bohls. Bohls has functional pieces but with geometric and whimsical twist. They add a flare of drama and interest to otherwise normal tableware. These shapes and colors inspired me to create my designs as they fit my idea of fun and function.

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My other inspiration came from looking at French cookware that is commonly used to make rustic dishes. My mother went to culinary school quite a few years ago and learned how to use many of the equipment of classic French cuisine. I looked at examples for the names, and came upon Josie Walter. She has a book on clay cookware, and names like marmites, tians, and casserole came up.

(image from http://www.josiewalter.co.uk)














My whole life I have been around the food business. My grandfather and my mother worked in places like the Tacoma Dome, and other food establishments even before she went to culinary school. Food, and great tasting food at that, has always been a part of my life. My mother creates rustic, hearty yet flavorful dishes that my whole family enjoys. I want to create the same dishes and feelings she does, but with cookware that is unique and something no one else has, yet still be functional. I want to add points, and geometry to my pieces to make them whimsical, so that I feel inspired to cook as well as my mom does

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For this assignment I was inspired by Gregg Moore and historic European dishes. Moore makes berry baskets (containers that are typically disposable) with porcelain. I am really interested by the persistence of an object despite its purpose to be disposable. The environment is suffering because the ‘out of sight out of mind’ mentality associated with human waste. 

(artaxis.com)

 Historic European dishes make such a big deal about everything. The designs and structures are fussy and delicate that you don’t even want to use the vessels, or you don’t possess the precious baby hands it requires to utilize them.

                                         
                                         (book: European Ceramics by Robin Hildyard pg. 94)


For my meal I want to make disposable food containers adorned with swirly, delicate nonsense. My hope is to make a big deal out of typically uncelebrated and insignificant meals. (I'm not done sketching the swirly delicate nonsense, so chill.)

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