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• The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was…
• At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way…
• Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
• I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
• The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my…
• The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.
• I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
• I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for…
• I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
• When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently…
• There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness,…
• There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow,…

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