"While visiting me in Holland my brother concluded that in his opinion there was no other object on earth as unuseful and stupid as a wooden shoe made of ceramics.
Ever since I was watching them more carefully and started feeling that I somehow wanted to work with them.
Sometime later I was casting clogs in porcelain and using them as puzzle pieces. Playing around I had an idea of adding some more clichés and made the tulip vase of porcelain clogs."
