Like I said, he started teaching pottery in 1968--the reality, man, is that he is challenging your sense of what art is, with the intent of blowing your mind so that you will rediscover your inner sense of wonder through which you will redefine your sense of the role and definition of what art is--or somesuch shit--

The real reality is that this little bit of business probably never really even happened--this little story sounds suspiciously like a Zen lesson--the ultimate point being that there is no such thing as a "still life"--that life is change, that the vase is incomplete without flowers, that the bowl anticipates the yogurt--do you get it now, Grasshopper?