“I like the idea of digging something out of the ground, fashioning it into something and then, to cap it all, heating it up with fire to change it to a durable visual statement. If you are lucky it hints at the licking flames and dripping molten substances whence it came.

“I love the haphazard but like to think I manipulate circumstances within which accidents can happen. After thirty years I am still excited at the possibility.”

Mick Morgan has lived and worked in Talog, Carmarthenshire since 1975.

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