The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

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

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

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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

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