Having never gone to cooking school, the meals we make are often hybridized from recipes we’ve read and places we’ve eaten, worked at, read about or watched on some cooking show or film. They arise from distant memories and desires, and maybe even some intuition/hope about what a dish truly wants to be. Often when we eat these meals, it feels like we’re visiting countries that don’t actually exist; wandering like culinary spectres into unknown places, drifting through time and space.
This bowl gives those vibes.
The vague yet specific (vaguely specific) color palette, mysterious patterns, dreamy movements and fragmentary rhythms all collide and spread through a bowl that is caught somewhere between an intimate serving bowl and a big-ass ramen bowl. It’s really great, and perhaps designed for a meal that no one has ever yet imagined.
Like a superhero origin story, it just needs to find it’s purpose and then it all makes sense.
It’s also a unique technical miracle. Somehow in the nerikomi process where different clay bodies each with different pigment loads are smashed together, we often observe small cracks manifesting between discrete colors in the drying or firing processes, but somehow, despite all the odds, this bowl exhibits no cracking; it’s stable, reliable, and deeply experimental. The sole survivor of a risky pattern. We only take chances.
Ø9” x 3.5” h. Stoneware with clear glaze interior and unfinished outer surface & edge.
Food-safe and dishwasher-friendly.
Having never gone to cooking school, the meals we make are often hybridized from recipes we’ve read and places we’ve eaten, worked at, read about or watched on some cooking show or film. They arise from distant memories and desires, and maybe even some intuition/hope about what a dish truly wants to be. Often when we eat these meals, it feels like we’re visiting countries that don’t actually exist; wandering like culinary spectres into unknown places, drifting through time and space.
This bowl gives those vibes.
The vague yet specific (vaguely specific) color palette, mysterious patterns, dreamy movements and fragmentary rhythms all collide and spread through a bowl that is caught somewhere between an intimate serving bowl and a big-ass ramen bowl. It’s really great, and perhaps designed for a meal that no one has ever yet imagined.
Like a superhero origin story, it just needs to find it’s purpose and then it all makes sense.
It’s also a unique technical miracle. Somehow in the nerikomi process where different clay bodies each with different pigment loads are smashed together, we often observe small cracks manifesting between discrete colors in the drying or firing processes, but somehow, despite all the odds, this bowl exhibits no cracking; it’s stable, reliable, and deeply experimental. The sole survivor of a risky pattern. We only take chances.
Ø9” x 3.5” h. Stoneware with clear glaze interior and unfinished outer surface & edge.
Food-safe and dishwasher-friendly.
