When Charles K. Steiner paints, he translates, be it from observation of landscape, documentation of tired airport passengers, or conversions of assemblage like shoes or bathmats. Influential was employment for Swiss Rudolph Steiner School in 1973-74. (Steiner name-coincidental Rudolph-no relation.) The residential school was for intellectually disabled and stressed the importance of the arts simultaneous to following anthroposophy, a religious philosophy that "translated" everyday life thru Rudolph's cult-like religious lens. (Rudolph Steiner's (1861-1925) art theories were featured in the 2013 55th Venice Biennale.) Inculcated for 10 months where every aspect of lifestyle, not just language, was in "translation" and a translation that he didn't always understand, pushed Charles to make translation critical to his lifetime studio practice as, in Switzerland, he witnessed translation of language and other life experiences broadening the audience and discourse of its subject.