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

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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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"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break."

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"I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball."

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"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another."

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"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."

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"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."

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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 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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"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."

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