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.

Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

The early firings contained many stones.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.