The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.

The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.