"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."

Nature, Art, Time, Growth

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"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."

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

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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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"The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it."

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"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."

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"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."

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"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far."

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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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"The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone."

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