Thursday, January 19, 2006

Plates on a path

This is an image from a project I did a couple of years ago with artist, Lonnie Graham. I made 200 bowls, which I packed up and took with me to conference in California at the Copia Institute. The bowls were given to the participants with 5 tastes in each - salty, sweet, piquant, sour and bitter. Before the panel spoke, Lonnie and I wandered out into Napa and found this location.

It was dawn, we sang. Later, we ate. What's possible? How can we reimagine how we live? So many possibilites....

3 comments:

Greenjeans said...

This is my favorite picture of your work, Mary Anne. I have a postcard of it displayed with your dishes and everyone notices it and thinks it wonderful. I think it captures something essential about your playful yet grounded work. Thanks for telling the story behind the picture!
- Amy

Anonymous said...

I received one of these bowls at the Copia seminar and it is one of my favorite.
-Arin

Mary Anne Davis said...

I am delighted you found this photo and posted a comment, Arin! Enjoy the bowl...