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

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 did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

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