Dedicated to the lives lost in the consumption of meat. "Since the dawn of civilization, the food bowl has been a primal symbol of man's need to capture and consume his natural resources. First fruits and vegetables, then herbs and grains, and finally even the lovely animals with which he shares this globe; all were sacrificed so that man might prosper. The bowl, therefore, is a universal symbol of man's exploitation of nature. These simple wooden bowls might have been used to eat fish and rice in China, Gumbo in New Orleans, or mutton in olde England. The common denominator is that the bowl is a place of sacrifice, where the charred carcass of a murdered animal sits, awaiting man's thoughtless consumption. So, I present this series of painted bowls as a memorial to the lives lost in the production of meat products for man's insatiable appetite."