"Mutation" - Mexican Oak Burl - 9" long x 4 1/4" wide x 3" deep - 1999 - Permanant Collection of the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution This carving references spoons without being one, and to me appeared to be a spoon with an abnormality attached - a "Mutation" (see below).  Photography by Jim Osborn.