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.

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

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

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.

I take the opportunity each day offers.