"You have got to see it. It is really amazing. It has pushed all my technical knowledge to the limit."
Steve Tootell speaks of the table setting that he and 12 of his junior and senior students of ceramics are preparing for this year's Art of Dining Charity Exhibition. The head of creative and performing arts at The International School of the Sacred Heart, he held brainstorming sessions with his students to decide "what kind of food. My 12 students come from nine different countries, so can you imagine the debate about what should be on the table?" Finally they agreed on a theme, and gave their table entry the title of "An International Teen's Breakfast Table."
"This is breakfast, and we decided on a multicultural breakfast, a mix of everything teen kids like to eat. In a realistic, super backdrop there may be TV, homework still being done, sheer chaos. We are trying our best to make everything in clay for the tabletop, to re-create food, including bananas, in clay. It's been a long and complicated process, and the kids have been great. They give me wonderful inspiration."