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.

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.

Everything has the energy of its making inside it.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

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

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.