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.

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.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

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.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Complete control can be the death of a work.