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a little about me...trained as a graphic designer...always a bit of a rock bird....first job, the art department at rolling stone...next, a few fashion magazines: art director at mademoiselle & conde nast for a few years...cbgbs + mudd club every night (it was a blast) & slept under my desk at lunch...designed 12x12 album covers...art director at barneys new york & avedon studio...mtv in the 80's did my first super 8 rock video for the smiths "how soon is now"...directed many more rock videos...married a rocker...had a daughter, anna...directed tv commercials (a ton of fun and travel)...happy years in motherland...took a class in pottery with the goal of remaking everything in my kitchen...began making bottles for my friends at old field farm on the summer weekends...got a space in a group ceramics studio in red hook, brooklyn...constantly inspired by the work of 20th century studio potters: lucie rie, beatrice wood, the japanese artist rosanjin-kitaoji...mexican folk pottery...american stoneware bottles...for the moment the hope is to keep making things i find useful and beautiful and send them out into the world...nothing makes me happier than a morning in the studio listening to playlists of young bands i never heard of and trying new ideas...not much interested in production pottery...usually like a shape or an idea and make 10 or 12 of each...a few always fail to survive in one way or another...try see if anyone wants them...and they are off... X paula join our MAILING LIST