Pina Coastal Form Serving Platter — Medium

When you find a shell on the shore, the first thing you do isn't look at it; you pick it up. You weigh it in your palm, trace the roughness along its edge with your fingertip. In those few seconds, the noise around you pulls back a notch. Pina carries that moment to the table. The presence of the great shells that grow in the depths of the Mediterranean isn't copied line for line in this collection — it's summoned. The curve is no shell's exact likeness, yet whoever sees it remembers having seen it somewhere. The Cream tone softens that remembering: the inward-turning light of mother-of-pearl, the colour of water as day breaks. The medium size is a measure meant to be set before a single person. Which means this plate most often stays one-on-one with someone. Before the food arrives, that person brings a hand to its edge, feels its weight, pauses for a moment. The multi-sensory symphony Anelly Aya speaks of begins exactly here: the experience of nature doesn't narrow down to one sense — touch works together with sight and draws a person into the moment they're in. Perhaps this is the simplest form of caring for yourself. Sitting down at the table, taking a short distance from the rest of the day, giving a few seconds to the form in front of you. The table becomes a shelter then — a place where no one expects a performance, only that you are there. The rest is yours.