When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
I am a maker of useful things.
I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.
When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.