In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

Everything has the energy of its making inside it.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

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

I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.

Complete control can be the death of a work.