If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

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

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.