Plate Tectonics consists of seven broken dining and decorative plates that represent the seven major tectonic plates of the Earth’s surface. These seven plates, both reconstructed and broken, symbolize the rebuilding of parts of the world after natural destruction and other natural areas that stay changed. But these are also dishes people eat from, symbols of a ruined civilized existence. Another piece, 76 Plates, consists of a pile of 76 broken plates that stand for the many minor plate tectonics on the Earth’s surface. 76 Plates exemplifies how when one natural plate moves all the other plates inevitably move as well.