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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

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

Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

I tend to notice work.

Labor gives birth to ideas.