If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.