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

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

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

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.