Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.

If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.

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.

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.