People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

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

My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

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

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.