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.

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.

When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

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

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

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