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“Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.”

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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.

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Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.

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I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is…

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When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

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Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

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