Cast in black clay, this fruit bowl is in fact a plate, balancing atop a ball. It was made to hold fruit the old way: out where you can see it, not tucked into a cage. We picture this one piled with plums and lemons, as if dressed to attend some sort of Bauhaus ballet.

This is just one piece from Natalia Criado's series in which she works alongside artisans in La Chamba, a small community in Colombia's Tolima region where pottery has been the primary trade for generations. Each piece is shaped by hand, burnished with river stones, and fired black through a traditional smoking process, no glaze involved, just clay, stone, and smoke doing what they've always done.