Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

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.