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.

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 take the opportunity each day offers.

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.

Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.

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