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

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.

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

Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.

I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

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.