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

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

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

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.

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.

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.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.