When the food at a fine dining restaurant is described as art on a plate most likely, the plate is art in itself, as in recent years, chefs have taken to bespoke tableware as the vessels for their gourmet creations. Chef André Chiang, for one, handcrafted ceramic ornaments for his now-defunct Restaurant André in Singapore, and he turned to the professionals such as husband-and-wife ceramicists Loh Lik Kian and Debbie Ng when it came to tableware.
“Our tableware serves as canvases for the chef’s plating, much like the blank canvases for the artist to paint on,” enthuses Loh, whose interest in ceramics began when he chanced upon a unique Japanese teapot more than two decades ago. “I was mesmerised by its ‘natural beauty’ wood-fired with just the raw clay body, with a glaze pattern reminiscent of a string of fired straw, and an imperfect handle.”
this. i wonder how much of this art is funded by taxpayers? when does art become political speech? does it change things? eric trump sent a tweet. thank you delta and bank of america. this was the right thing to do. our viewers know. the actor has reddish hair. wears an unbuttoned overcoat with red power ties and tweets in a bathtub and stabbed to death by senators next to an american flag. it is unmistakable. to defend this in the name of art. how low have we sunk? i know the entertainment field feels they can insult donald trump. how low have we sunk to depict essentially the killing of a president or presidential figure? bill: interesting point. do you think the kathy griffin case changed this? perhaps not in this specific
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