I made "Plate" for a studio course in fall of 2016. The assignment was to take a mundane ordinary activity and make it abnormal in a performance piece. I started by thinking about what my daily routine is and it mostly came down to eating breakfast and going to class on my bike. The idea for plate was basically that my dishes get angry when I don't clean them. I was originally going to do a similar thing with laundry but had to much of a time constraint. I'd always wanted to do one of those "obvious dummy flying through the air" shots, so when I needed a way for a plate to knock down a human I had it all set up.