I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.

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

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.

Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.

I take the opportunity each day offers.