Concept
Tasked with reappropriating old silver-plate tableware, I found myself instantly attracted to this plate, with its simple, colonial-esque ball motif around the rim.
Looking into plates, I came across the Dining Philosopher's Problem. An example for multitasking in computers, the problem features five philosophers sitting around a table, with a fork between each of them. The philosophers may only eat when they have both the fork to their right and to their left in hand.
This piece explores that peculiar imagery. Through a simple locking mechanism, the user must obtain and properly use two forks in order to render the plate usable once more.