It's Art That's Taught Me

Time Gives Growth, It Gives Continuity And It Gives Change. And In The Case Of Some Sculptures, Time Gives A Patina To Them.

Looking, Touching, Material, Place And Form Are All Inseparable From The Resulting Work. It Is Difficult To Say Where One Stops And Another Begins. The Energy And Space Around A Material Are As Important As The Energy And Space Within. The Weather--rain, Sun, Snow, Hail, Mist, Calm--is That External Space Made Visible. When I Touch A Rock, I Am Touching And Working The Space Around It. It Is Not Independent Of Its Surroundings, And The Way It Sits Tells How It Came To Be There.

For Me Looking, Touching, Material, Place And Form Are All Inseparable From The Resulting Work. It Is Difficult To Say Where One Stops And Another Begins. Place Is Found By Walking, Direction Determined By Weather And Season. I Take The Opportunity Each Day Offers: If It Is Snowing, I Work In Snow, At Leaf-fall It Will Be Leaves; A Blown Over Tree Becomes A Source Of Twigs And Branches.

When It Does Get Below Freezing And There Is - It's Cold Enough For Ice To Form, Then That Changes The Whole Landscape, And It Makes The Landscape A Different Landscape To The One That I Worked With Previously. And I Want To Understand That. But The Big Tension Of The Ice Works Is That They're Often Made When It's Cold Enough To Freeze One Piece Of Ice To Another.

People Are The Nature Of The City, And You Can Feel It In The Pavement.