The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

We often forget that we are nature.

The early firings contained many stones.

I take the opportunity each day offers.

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

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