Time Capsules (bitter pills), 2001
Rocks, cuttlefish bone
private collection

This work came about in a natural almost effortless way that felt like a gift. I was sitting on the beach near Eddystone lighthouse
and picked up a piece of cuttlefish bone and had a urge to carve it. I found my pocket knife and  returned to the beach and there
on the spot began making small pills in  capsule form. There was no reason for making these forms, they just starting  being
made in a rapid succession until I had a large handful. It occurred to me what I was making at that point was anything that could
take me further into  being of that place. The title came immediately also at that point, Time Capsules (bitter pills), because
I had been musing and making other works about transporting myself  back in time to the same place hundreds of years ago.
I immediately called  them bitter pills, because I don't think that I would have survived long or enjoyed what I found.