The maid in the house I used in Tokyo was Tsuneko-san, whose head I modeled and cast in plaster. When I went to Kyoto to work with the potter Jinmatsu Uno, I made many terra-cottas. Some of these came from my having seen prehistoric “Haniwa.” I took the plaster casts I had made of my uncle and Tsuneko-san and did terra-cotta versions of them there. One from the same mold in white high-fired ceramic was bought by A. Conger Goodyear when I did my first table for his new house in Old Westbury, Long Island, designed by Ed Stone.