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

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.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

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.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.