I Think That I'm Always Trying To

In Contact With Materials, I Can See So Much More With My Hands Than I Can Just With My Eyes. I'm A Participant, Not A Spectator. I See Myself Both As An Object And A Material, And The Human Presence Is Really Important To The Landscapes In Which I Work.

I've Laid Down In Dried Up Streambeds, Leaving A Shadow. And Then, Five Minutes Later, It's Flash Flooded, And Where I Once Laid Is Now Running Water, Which Would've Washed Me Away, You Know? There's That Power And Danger Often In Places That Look So Calm And Pastoral To Begin With.

People Do Not Realise That Many Of My Works Are Done In Urban Places. I Was Brought Up On The Edge Of Leeds, Five Miles From The City Centre-on One Side Were Fields And On The Other, The City.

One Of The Beauties Of Art Is That It Reflects An Artist's Entire Life. What I've Learned Over The Past 30 Years Is Really Beginning To Inform What I Make. I Hope That Process Continues Until I Die.

Generally In New York, People Just Walk Over You With No Problem About That. Other Countries, People Want To Resuscitate You, Like, After A Bit.