Sometimes You Need To Stop

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'm Dealing With The Most Important Things There Are: Life And Nature. If This Doesn't Work, If This Doesn't Sustain Me, I Can't Go Back To Nature. I'm Right There. There's Nowhere To Go, And That Frightens Me.

Even In Winter An Isolated Patch Of Snow Has A Special Quality.

I See My Work Plagiarized In Gardening Programmes And Decorating Programmes And Car Adverts, And I Suppose I Have To Accept That's Just The Way Art Gets Assimilated Into Culture.

There Are Occasions When I Have Moved Boulders, But I'm Reluctant To, Especially Ones That Have Been Rooted In A Place For Many Years.