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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.

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.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.

I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.