The early firings contained many stones.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.