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

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.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

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

I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.