It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

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

Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.