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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…
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At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way…
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Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
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I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
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The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my…
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The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.
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I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
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I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for…
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I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
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When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently…
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There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness,…
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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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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original…
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Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life,…
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Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be,…
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We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know.…
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We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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