It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

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

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.