When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least..

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are..

There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever qua….

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture..

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting..

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process….

I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for me, n….

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local….

The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backward….

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness..

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects..

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility..

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace..