If I Had To Describe My Work

The Difference Between A Theatre With And Without An Audience Is Enormous. There Is A Palpable, Critical Energy Created By The Presence Of The Audience.

Design Implies A Sense Of Mapping Something Out And Then You Follow The Plan.

I Soon Realised That What Had Happened On A Small Scale Cannot Necessarily Be Repeated On A Larger Scale. The Stones Were So Big That The Amount Of Heat Required Was Prohibitively Expensive And Wasteful.

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.

Once The Fired Stone Is Out Of The Kiln, It Is Still Possible To Mentally Reconstruct It In Its Original Form.