Designing a botijo, an object with thousands of years of tradition, is always suggestive, but also a challenge. In addition to its functionality, because having fresh water at hand has always been a luxury, I wanted my design to have a certain poetic charge and uniqueness.

Since I am an eminently figurative artist, when I saw that in the splendid Museu de Argentona there were botijos in the shape of birds, bulls, dogs and fishes - antique or by Picasso - I thought that I could make one in the shape of an elephant, because the trunk could be used as a nice spout and no one had done that before. But, after presenting my creation, the museum officials warned me that there was already another botijo ​​in their warehouses with this shape. Which shows that, as Pla said, one is never original.