For the last several years I have made a few bowls which I call Caterpillar Bowls. They feel like the metamorphosis of a piece I made in my 7th grade ceramics class. When I brought mushrooms home from the farmers market Warren suggested I take a photo of them. Once placed in the bowl it was as if the existence of the mushroom was translated into the woodfired bowl itself.

Each individual lives the story of his or her own existence—we “translate” our lives as we live them. In my case translated into objects: art and books.

—Anne Truitt, YIELD: The Journey of an Artist, Yale University Press, 2022, page 3