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.

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.

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.