This entire collection is inspired by one meal, one “moment.” While planning to prepare a seven course Japanese meal I set about trying to decide how each course would be presented. After spending almost two hours going through closets and cupboards, I had the presentation of all the courses planned in my head. That experience changed me and made me a better potter and a better cook. That meal changed my fundamental view of the pots I make and how I fire them. All of these meals and their presentation were inspired by that meal and that “moment.”