When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

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.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.