I was always torn between ideas and reality. Because I struggled to concentrate on some concepts other children simply accepted, I had to limit my imagination to things I could grasp in my own world. I could pull things apart and put them back together again. As I matured, that led to a more focused concentration on construction rather than demolition.

The world expects sculpture to be complex and exclusive so I can spend more time creating forms that imbue more meaning and quality than ever before. I can wholly grasp the challenge of creating something purely because it’s worth summoning it from the imagination into existence.