Winter Makes A Bridge Between One Year

When I’m Working With Materials It’s Not Just The Leaf Or The Stone, It’s The Processes That Are Behind Them That Are Important. That’s What I’m Trying To Understand, Not A Single Isolated Object But Nature As A Whole.

My Sculpture Can Last For Days Or A Few Seconds - What Is Important To Me Is The Experience Of Making. I Leave All My Work Outside And Often Return To Watch It Decay.

I Have To Understand The Nature Of Change. And I Cannot Just Work With Stone Or The More Permanent Materials. I Need To Work With Leaves And Ice And Snow And Mud And Clay And Water And The Rising Tide And The Wind And All These.

I Think I Have Been Fashioned By The Fickle Weather Of Britain That It Is - It's Forever Changing. There's No Kind Of Constant Sun Or Dry Weather Or Freezing Weather, And I'm Always Having To Change And Adapt To That.

It's Just That When I Work On Someone Else's Land, It Makes Me Aware Of The Social Nature Of That Landscape.