After just this first summer’s few weeks in the sun and mistral, observing forms of nature reacting to and even being created by these great forces, I wanted to make a large depiction of this. I called the piece both “Mistral” and “Transmitter-Receiver”, and it still is. As the wind and the sun aggress the elements of nature, nature in reply affects the wind and sun. These actions are both direct and indirect; thus the forms of the sculpture are at once riveted in place, as well as slipping and sliding against each other. How could they possibly move, how can they possibly be holding together.

The shape of the forms of the piece was suggested by the shape of the block; this stone had lost a corner when it was quarried, leaving a large beautiful concave shape. I sketched the block a bit and my vague but nascent thoughts about depicting movement in a sculpture through repetition of similarly-shaped, or even same-shaped, forms, started to develop.