Art For Me Is A Form Of

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.

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.

We Leave Our Presence In The Pavement. We're Walking Over It, Sitting On Steps.

My Approach To Photograph Is Kept Simple, Almost Routine. All Work, Good And Bad, Is Documented. I Use Standard Film, A Standard Lens And No Filters. Each Work Grows, Strays, Decays-integral Parts Of A Cycle Which The Photograph Shows At Its Height, Marking The Moment When The Work Is Most Alive. There Is An Intensity About A Work At Its Peak That I Hope Is Expresses In The Image. Process And Decay Are Implicit.

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