Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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.
It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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.