If I Had To Describe My Work

We Often Forget That We Are Nature. Nature Is Not Something Separate From Us. So When We Say That We Have Lost Our Connection To Nature, We’ve Lost Our Connection To Ourselves.

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.

I Think That I'm Always Trying To Get Beyond The Surface Appearance Of Things, To Go Beyond What I Can Just See.

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.

When I’m Working With Materials It’s Not Just The Leaf Or The Stone, It’s The Processes That Are Behind Them That Are Important. That’s What I’m Trying To Understand, Not A Single Isolated Object But Nature As A Whole.