The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

I take the opportunity each day offers.

I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.