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The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.
- Early
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The early firings contained many stones.
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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
- I Am
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Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
- Committing
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
- Big
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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.
- Experiencing
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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
- Enough
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Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
- Possible
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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
- Melt
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
- Leaf
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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
- Fire
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
- Ideas
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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
- Mountain
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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
- Journey
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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
- Early
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
- Project
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
- Me
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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
- Done
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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
- Growth
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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
- Quiet
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
- Me
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I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.
- Energy
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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
- Next
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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
- I Am
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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
- Difficult
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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.
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