Fire Drop Sauce Bowl — Medium

The Fire Drop Sauce Bowl holds the shape of a drop just before it falls. Its inward-curving body gathers the sauce; its elongated tip guides the flow as you pour. The bare clay edge of the ceramic feels faintly textured beneath your fingers, while the glossy glaze at its center catches the light like an ember. This small vessel carries more than sauce to the table; it holds the brief, vivid trace of fire. The warmth around an ember brings nearby things into focus without erasing the dark. This form, too, draws the eye to a single point; light across the surface accompanies the flow of the sauce. As you sit down to dinner and pick up the sauce bowl, the coolness of the clay and the textured edge open a small distance from the noise of the day. A few seconds of contact bring your attention back to where you are. It rests beside the main plate. As you pour the sauce over your food, the drop-shaped curve keeps the flow in one place; then your hand reaches for the plate again. Across from you, someone notices the ember-bright interior of the sauce bowl in the pause between reaching. You return to your meal without hurrying. The flow of the glaze and the traces left by the clay meet differently in every piece. The same ember quietly takes on its own shape at your table that evening.