I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

Everything has the energy of its making inside it.

The early firings contained many stones.

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

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.

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