The art making process

I lay awake at night, plotting execution of a sculpture, considering shapes and materials, ultimately getting up to jot down notes in my sketchbook.  Sometimes the nighttime idea generation is like going into a cave, with a candle, and looking at the paintings on the walls.  Looking at light and shadow, at patterns in rivers, sunlight on water, the shape of a wooden burl, I find inspiration on my walks.  Nature informs the work and provides material constantly. The work shifts and changes, and it is an evolving thing, like an organism.