I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

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

The early firings contained many stones.

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.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.