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

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

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"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."

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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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"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."

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