The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.